CASES & PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA COVERAGE

On TV every defendant gets a trial. But in real life, trials are rare.
The Washington Post (March 2022)

I was one of the lawyers who helped win marriage equality. And yes, the GOP can take it away
Salon (November 2021)

Secondary Traumatic Stress (or: On the Dispersal of Brain Matter in a Kentucky Trailer)
Medium.com (August 2021)

The Language of Love v. Beshear: Telling a Client’s Story While Creating a Civil Rights Case Narrative
Legal Communication and Rhetoric: JALWD, Volume 17 (Fall 2020)

Law practice vs. legal academia: Can we build a bicultural legal world?
ABA Journal (April 2020)

The New ‘In-House Counsel’: Conference Calls With Kids, Pets, And A Rooster
Above the Law (April 2020)

Under Assumption: Correcting automatic gender assignment in legal paperwork
Bench & Bar (January 2020)

Anxious About Law School Final Exams? Relax
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Fall 2019)

Marriage Equality and a Lawyer’s Role in the Emergence of “New” Rights
National Law Journal (December 2019)

Why can’t we talk about reparations? A congressional candidate broaches an unmentionable topic
Salon (March 2018)

It’s Time to Abolish ICE
The Nation (March 2018)

Is This Indiana Civil Rights Lawyer the Great Progressive Hope of 2018?
Vice (January 2018)

This lawyer is running for Congress and suing the president for inciting violence at the same time
Mic (August 2017)

A System Designed to Make People Disappear
Slate (April 2017)

Lawyers Take On Trump's Travel Ban
The New York Times (Documentary) (February 2017)

What price can you put on a meaningful life? Or resistance through infiltration
LEO Weekly (February 2017)

With the return of slick, coiffured white supremacists, a time to act
LEO Weekly (December 2016)

This is how they try to make America white again
Salon (November 2016)

Love v. Kentucky
Informavore Media (Documentary) (2016)

Death penalty in Kentucky is an expensive, ineffective, obsolete relic
Insider Louisville (August 2014)

Starvation death of Ky. prisoner underscores need to protect inmates’ rights
Insider Louisville (May 2014)

All I Need to Know About Being a Lawyer I Learned From Star Trek: An Open Letter to New Attorneys
The Advocate (April/May 2014)

The case for marriage equality in Kentucky
Insider Louisville (December 2013)

On Kindness in Litigation
The Advocate (May/June 2013)

The Right to Enjoy Work
The Advocate (January/February 2013)

The Emerging Field of Paramilitary Police/SWATT Litigation
NBI CLE Blog (January 2013)

The Roberts Court and the First Amendment: Implications for Trial Lawyers
The Advocate (July/August 2011)

Keeping the Blame Off the Victim: Civil Rights Protections for Domestic Violence Survivors
The Advocate (November/December 2009)

CASES

Obergefell v. Hodges
576 U.S. 644 (2015)

Doe v. Haaland
973 F.3d 591 (6th Cir. 2020)

Bourke v. Beshear
No. 3:13-CV-00750-CRS, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4064 (W.D. Ky. Jan. 13, 2016)

Nwanguma v. Trump
273 F.Supp.3d 719 (W.D. Ky. 2017)

Camm v. Faith
No. 18-1440 (7th Cir. 2019)

Nash v. McHugh
No. 3:15-cv-00093, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5307 (M.D. Tenn. Jan. 15, 2016)

Gentry v. Floyd Cnty.
No. 4:14-cv-00054-RLY-TAB, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18195 (S.D. Ind. Feb. 16, 2016)

Miller v. Davis
123 F. Supp. 3d 924 (E.D. Ky. 2015)

Alph C. Kaufman, Inc., v. Cornerstone Industries Corp.,
540 S.W.3d 803 (Ky. App. 2017)

LeMaster v. Lycom Communications, Inc.
No. 2016-CA-000717-MR (Ky. Ct. App. May 17, 2019)

Cunningham v. City of Lynnview
No. 2011-CA-002247-MR, 2015 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 194 (Ct. App. Mar. 20, 2015)

Admin. Office of the Courts v. Vidaud
No. 2013-CA-001881-MR, 2015 Ky. App. LEXIS 44 (Ct. App. Apr. 3, 2015)

Paul v. City of Leb. Junction
No. 2011-CA-002110-MR, 2015 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 507 (Ct. App. July 17, 2015)

Sietsema v. Adams
Nos. 2013-CA-001159-MR, 2013-CA-001461-MR, 2015 Ky. App. LEXIS 116 (Ct. App. Aug. 14, 2015)

Bourke v. Beshear
996 F. Supp. 2d 542 (W.D. Ky. 2014)

Love v. Beshear
989 F. Supp. 2d 536 (W.D. Ky. 2014)

McKinney v. City of Paducah
2014 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 138 (Ky. Ct. App. Feb. 14, 2014)

Allen v. Commonwealth
395 S.W.3d 451 (Ky. 2013)

Phat's Bar & Grill v. Louisville Jefferson Cty. Metro Gov't
918 F. Supp. 2d 654 (W.D. Ky. 2013)

King v. Taylor
694 F.3d 650 (6th Cir. 2012)

Martin v. O’Daniel
2011 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 429 (Ky. Ct. App. May 20, 2011)

Yoder v. Univ. of Louisville
2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67241 (W.D. Ky. Aug. 3, 2009)

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