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MOHAWK  INDUSTRIES,  INC.  v.  CARPENTER 

Syllabus 

olution  of  district  court  litigation  and  needlessly  burdening  the  courts 
of  appeals,  cf.  Cunningham  v.  Hamilton  County,  527  U. S.  198,  209. 
Pp. 107–113. 

(c)  The  admonition  that  the  class  of  collaterally  appealable  orders 
must remain “narrow and selective in its membership,” Will, 546 U. S., 
at 350, has acquired special force in recent years with the enactment of 
legislation  designating  rulemaking,  “not  expansion  by  court  decision,” 
as the preferred means for determining whether and when prejudgment 
orders  should be  immediately appealable,  Swint, 514  U. S., at  48.  Any 
further avenue for immediate appeal of adverse attorney-client privilege 
rulings  should  be  furnished,  if  at  all,  through  rulemaking,  with  the  op­
portunity for full airing it provides.  Pp. 113–114. 

541 F. 3d 1048, afﬁrmed. 

Sotomayor,  J.,  delivered  the  opinion  of  the  Court,  in  which  Roberts, 
C.  J.,  and  Stevens,  Scalia,  Kennedy,  Ginsburg,  Breyer,  and  Alito, 
JJ.,  joined,  and  in  which  Thomas,  J.,  joined,  as  to  Part  II–C.  Thomas, 
J.,  ﬁled  an  opinion  concurring  in  part  and  concurring  in  the  judgment, 
post, p. 114. 

Randall  L.  Allen  argued  the  cause  for  petitioner.  With 

him on the briefs was Daniel F. Difﬂey. 

Judith Resnik argued the cause for respondent.  With her 
on the brief were J. Craig Smith, Dennis E. Curtis, Thomas 
J.  Munger,  Alan  B.  Morrison,  Deepak  Gupta,  Brian  Wolf-
man, and Sean K. McElligott. 

Deputy  Solicitor  General  Kneedler  argued  the  cause  for 
the United States as amicus curiae in support of respondent. 
With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assist­
ant  Attorney  General  West,  Pratik  A.  Shah,  and  Michael 
S. Raab.* 

*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were ﬁled for the American Bar 
Association  by  H.  Thomas  Wells,  Jr.,  and  Paul  Mogin;  for  the  Chamber 
of Commerce of the United States of America by Paul D. Clement, Jeffrey 
S.  Bucholtz,  Robin  S.  Conrad,  and  Amar  D.  Sarwal;  and  for  DRI–The 
Voice  of  the  Defense  Bar  by  Constantine  L.  Trela,  Jr.,  and  Quin  M. 
Sorenson. 

Stephen  I.  Vladeck,  Charles  S.  Sims,  Mark  D.  Harris,  and  Anna  G. 
Kaminska ﬁled a brief for Former Article III Judges et al. as amici curiae 
urging afﬁrmance.