The firm's Nashville litigators -- led by Bradley A. MacLean -- prevailed in 2001 with a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, United States v. United Foods, Inc. This commercial free speech case successfully challenged the U.S. Agriculture Department's practice of collecting a mandatory marketing fee from mushroom producers.

This was the third time in the last 13 years that Stites & Harbison attorneys argued or managed cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In the Court's 2000 session, the firm argued a patent infringement case, and in 1992, it launched a Constitutional challenge to Tennessee's sales and use tax scheme.