On February 27, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in...
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Ted Hirt
Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School
Biography
Theodore C. (Ted) Hirt was an attorney in the Department of Justice's Civil Division from August 1979 to March 2016. He was in its Federal Programs Branch from 1979 to 2008 (trial attorney, senior trial counsel, assistant director), and then in its Office of Immigration Litigation from 2008 to 2016 (trial attorney and senior litigation counsel). Among his responsibilities (September 2001 to March 2016) was being an advisor to the Assistant Attorneys General for the Civil Division, who serve ex officio on the Civil Rules Advisory Committee. Mr. Hirt’s areas of specialization include First Amendment issues, internet and telecommunications law, and electronic discovery. From 1976 to 1979, he was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman. From 1975 to 1976 he was an attorney in the Prehearing Division of the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Have the American People Irrevocably Ceded Control of Their Government to the Modern Administrative State?
Ted Hirt
A review of Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First...
Whistling in Chevronland: Why Department of Labor Interpretations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Whistleblower Provisions Do Not Deserve Judicial Deference
Donn C. Meindertsma
Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...
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Argument Spotlight: Return Mail v. USPS
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A Most Unusual Brief From the Solicitor General: Threading the Needle on Auer Deference
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The Bladensburg WWI Memorial Cross
On February 27, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in...