Lee v. Virginia State Board of Elections
(U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit), 188 F. Supp.3d 577 (E.D. Va. 2016), affirmed 843 F.3d 592 (4th Cir. 2016) Thor was appointed by Virginia’s Attorney General as special counsel for the Commonwealth of Virginia to defend the state’s photo-voter ID law. As lead trial and appellate counsel Thor successfully defended the Virginia...
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer
Amicus Brief (U.S. Supreme Court), 137 S.Ct. 2012 (2017) We served as counsel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and in the U.S. Supreme Court for the National Association of Evangelicals as an amicus party in this First Amendment religious freedom case. The case challenged the Missouri state constitution’s “Blaine Amendment,”...
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
Amicus Brief (U.S. Supreme Court), 553 U.S. 181 (2008) Thor served as counsel for leadership of United States Senate and House of Representatives (Senators Mitch McConnell, Robert Bennett, Christopher S. "Kit" Bond and United States Representatives Roy Blunt, Lamar Smith and Vernon Ehlers) as amici curiae before the United States Supreme Court in...
@FederalTakings
Federal court in NY rules governor's pandemic executive order not a regulatory taking under either Penn Central or Lucas. Thanks to @invcondemnation for the analysis: https://www.inversecondemnation.com/inversecondemnation/2020/09/ny-fed-ct-when-faced-with-a-society-threatening-epidemic-state-officials-are-empowered-to-infringe-f.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inversecondemnationcom+%28inversecondemnation%29
Looking forward to what looks like an outstanding CLE program tomorrow with @OwnersCounsel members @invcondemnation & @eminentdomainNJ: "Governmental Emergency Powers and the Constitutional Implications Arising from Pandemic Orders" https://shar.es/abAvR7 @ABAesq
Excellent interview of @SteveClarkeVA on the @J_Clint eminent domain podcast: "The Emotions of an Eminent Domain Case with Stephen Clarke" (aka Matt Damon) https://www.eminentdomainpodcast.com/podcast-episode-54-the-emotions-of-an-eminent-domain-case-with-stephen-clarke/
Great post by @invcondemnation: "There's no federal police power to regulate...health, safety, welfare, or morals, but as we know, federal power, although supposedly limited, is pretty wide-ranging. Just ask Farmer Filburn about his locally-grown wheat." https://shar.es/abZQht
