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Amicus Briefs
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Published on: April 8, 2020
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Amicus Brief in Pennsylvania v. Trump
On behalf of a group of prominent church-state scholars, we filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania v. Trump. In the brief, we explain that the Trump administration’s rule granting...
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Published on: September 20, 2019
Kaplan Hecker and Fink Files Amicus Brief Explaining Standing for House to Seek Trump Tax Returns
On behalf of leading constitutional scholars, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP – along with Harvard Law Professor Laurence H Tribe – filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of...
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Published on: September 3, 2019
Kaplan Hecker and Fink Files Amicus Brief in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia
On behalf of Ted Olson, Walter Dellinger, Karen Dunn, Neal Katyal, and Seth Waxman, Kaplan Hecker and Fink has filed an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court explaining that Title VII is...
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Published on: September 3, 2019
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Amicus Brief in Garner v. Colorado
State and federal courts have split in answering a profoundly important question: whether the Due Process Clause imposes any limitations on in-court eyewitness identifications made under suggestive...
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Published on: August 16, 2019
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Amicus Brief in Hernández v. Mesa
Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca, a 15-year old Mexican national, was shot and killed by a Customs and Border Patrol agent in the border area between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The...
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Published on: April 1, 2019
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Amicus Brief in Department of Commerce v. New York
Earlier this year, a federal court overturned a decision by the Secretary of Commerce to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The court determined that adding the question would reduce the...
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Published on: March 27, 2019
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Amicus Brief in Pennsylvania v. Trump
Earlier this year, two district courts blocked Trump Administration rules that create sweeping exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement, and would ultimately shift...
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Published on: March 11, 2019
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Amicus Brief in Washington v. Arlene’s Flowers
Kaplan Hecker & Fink has filed an amicus brief in the Washington State Supreme Court in Washington v. Arlene’s Flowers (Wash. No. 91615-2). The brief was filed on behalf of a group of leading...
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Published on: October 11, 2018
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Amicus Brief in Fulton v. Philadelphia
A religious agency is not entitled to a government subsidy for its religious practice of refusing to serve same-sex foster couples. Read why in our brief on behalf of church-state scholars in Fulton...
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Published on: July 5, 2018
Kaplan Hecker & Fink Files Brief Supporting Transgender Rights and Challenging President Trump's Military Ban
Earlier this week, Kaplan Hecker & Fink filed an amicus brief in Karnoski v. Trump (9th Cir. No. 18-35347), a challenge to President Trump's unconstitutional ban on military service by...