Admitted: 1963, California and New York
Law School: New York University, LL.B.
Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association; State Bar of California; Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
Biography: Associate Managing Editor, N.Y.U. Law Review, 1961-1962. Root-Tilden Scholar. Recipient of 1982 Lawyer-of-the-Year Award from Constitutional Rights Foundation and Los Angeles County Bar Assn. Ford Foundation Fellow in Comparative Law, New York University, 1962-1963. Legal Research in Denmark under Combined Ford Ftn. Fulbright and Danish Govt. Grants, 1963-1964. Instructor, University of Chicago Law School, 1964-1965. Co-Founding Editor, "Reason Magazine." Author: "Affirmative Action and the California Civil Rights Initiative," 1995, Annual Survey of American Law 499; "The First Amendment and Commercial Speech," 11 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 83 (1988). Participant, "Symposium on the First Amendment and Securities Regulation," 20 Conn. L. Rev. 383 (1988). Trustee, Reason Foundation, 1978. Director, Institute for Justice, 1991-1998. Chairman, Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, Federalist Society, 1996-2005. Chairman, Libertarian Law Council, 1974.General Counsel, Individual Rights Ftn., 2000.
Born: New York, N.Y., August 14, 1939
Cases: Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000); Plasticolor Molded Products v. Ford Motor Co, 713 F. Supp. 1329 (C.D. Cal. 1989); Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F.Supp. 44 (D.D.C., 1998).