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Maryland Chapter: Supreme Court Update
The Supreme Court has had one of its most monumental terms in years, with plenty of important developments in criminal and civil law. In addition to several high-profile cases involving capital punishment, including the Boston marathon bombing case, the Court tackled cases ranging from the constitutionality of pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions, whether the Second Amendment protects concealed carry licenses for firearms, vaccine mandates, school prayer, opioid prosecution standards, and what constitutes a “crime of violence” under federal criminal law. Jason Medinger, Appellate Chief at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, Paresh Patel, Appellate Chief at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland, and Professor and Legal Analyst Kim Wehle will discuss these and other significant cases from the Supreme Court’s 2021-2022 term and how these decisions affect our practice.
Speaker
Jason D. Medinger
Jason D. Medinger has been serving as the Appellate Chief for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland since 2017. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Maryland prosecuting narcotics and violent crime cases. He has also served as a civil AUSA, defending the United States government and its agencies against civil actions alleging torts and employment discrimination. Prior to entering government service, Mr. Medinger worked at a law firm in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Medinger has been an adjunct professor of law at Stevenson University since 2011. He clerked for the Honorable Stanley F. Birch, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2004-2005. He received his law degree from the Emory University School of Law in 2004, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2000.
Paresh Patel
Paresh Patel is currently the Appellate Chief at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland. He has been at the Federal Public Defender since 2003. Before then, he worked as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. and the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York, New York. In 1999-2000, he clerked for the Honorable Ancer L. Haggerty of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland. Paresh earned his J.D. from American University in 1996, and he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California in 1993.
Kimberly L. Wehle
Kimberly L. Wehle is a tenured law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and former CBS News legal analyst. She writes on the separation of powers, outsourcing government, and the federal administrative state. She is also an op-Ed contributor for Politico, The Atlantic, The Hill and The Bulwark, and a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR’s Morning Edition. Wehle has written three books: How to Read the Constitution – and Why, What You Need to Know About Voting – and Why, and How to Think Like a Lawyer — and Why.
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