In a case of first impression, the Texas Supreme Court recently ruled in Severance v....
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John M. Reeves
Founder and Member, Reeves Law LLC
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John M. Reeves is the Founder and Member of Reeves Law LLC, a solo appellate practice in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of over 250 appellate briefs, and has argued in all three districts of the Missouri Court of Appeals, the Missouri Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Additionally, Mr. Reeves regularly files briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States and other federal appellate courts throughout the country. In addition to his direct appellate services, Mr. Reeves advises trial counsel on the handling of dispositive motions and the preservation of error at the lower-court stage. He served as an Assistant Missouri Attorney General from 2008 to 2015.
Mr. Reeves received his JD from Washington University School of Law in 2007. In 2004, he received both an MA and a BA in History from Washington University in St. Louis, having earned his Master's degree within his regular four years of undergraduate study.
Vice President for Legal Affairs, Goldwater Institute
Biography
Timothy Sandefur is the Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation and holds the Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. He litigates to promote economic liberty, private property rights, free speech, and other crucial values in states across the country.
Timothy is the author of nine books, including most recently You Don’t Own Me: Individualism and the Culture of Liberty (2025), and Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness (2022), as well as more than 50 scholarly articles on a wide variety of legal subjects. A frequent guest on radio and television, he is well known to radio audiences as “Tim the Lawyer” on The Armstrong & Getty Show, and his writings have appeared in Reason, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and The Objective Standard, where he is a contributing editor. He has taught classes at Pepperdine University, McGeorge School of Law, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, and Arizona State University, where he held the 2023-24 Barry Goldwater Chair in American Institutions.
He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute and is a graduate of Hillsdale College and Chapman University School of Law.
Litigation Update: Johnson & Johnson v. Ingham
John M. Reeves
Johnson & Johnson v. Ingham is a pending petition before the U.S. Supreme Court. It involves...
Texas Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Private-Property Owners in Case on Public Access to Beaches
Timothy Sandefur, Brittany LaCouture
In a case of first impression, the Texas Supreme Court recently ruled in Severance v....