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Jones Day Alums Driving the Anti-Gay Agenda + More News
This might be subscription only. It was for me at first. I plugged in the title at Google News and got right in.
Hat tip, AboveTheLaw: https://abovethelaw.com/2017/10/morning-docket-10-03-17/
Jones Day Alums Driving the Anti-Gay Agenda + More News
Vivia Chen, The Careerist, The Am Law Daily
October 2, 2017
Time for another edition of quick and dirty news. Here's what's catching my eye.
Jones Day Gets Trumpier
President Trump might not be the darling of Big Law (remember, those elite lawyers tend to skew liberal), but he seems to have no problem recruiting from Jones Day. What's more, some of those Jones Day lawyers who've moved over to the administration are in the forefront promoting his conservative social agenda, like limiting gay rights. ... First, let's try to do a quick count of Jones Day lawyers who have hopped over to the Trump administration. There's Don McGahn, the mysterious White House counsel, and the coterie he brought over to work in other top positions (even as early as January, 12 Jones Day lawyers had landed in Trumpland). And goodness knows how many minion associates have followed in their footsteps.
Recently, the Trump administration has slotted more Jones Day folks for top jobs, according to The National Law Journal:
• Former associate Stephen Vaden for general counsel of the Department of Agriculture.
• Labor and employment partner Eric Dreiband for assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
• Partner Dana Baiocco to head the Consumer Products Safety Commission.
And which Jones Day alums are pushing to curb gay rights? Let's start with the cake wars now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court (a Colorado baker is refusing to provide wedding cakes for gay couples because of his Christian beliefs). A sizable number of Jones Day alums in the Office of Solicitor General signed the amicus brief supporting the baker/cake "artist," including Chad Readler, John Gore, Hashim Mooppan and Brinton Lucas. As Marcia Coyle reports in the NLJ, the decision to support the baker was contentious within the DOJ.
And in another hot-button case involving gay rights, ex-Jones Day now DOJ lawyer Hashim Mooppan argued that employers have the right to fire people for sexual orientation, reports Vice News. Mooppan, who also signed the wedding cake brief, made this argument before the 13 judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: ... "Employers under Title VII are permitted to consider employees' out-of-work sexual conduct. There is a commonsense, intuitive difference between sex and sexual orientation." ... Not sure what Mooppan is saying there. In any case, I'm guessing he won't be invited to the next LGBT affinity group meeting at Jones Day or elsewhere. ... So who says Big Law folks finds Trump's positions abhorrent? My prediction: Jones Day's reputation as a right-wing firm will solidify, and it will attract a lot more recruits of that ilk.
Vivia Chen, The Careerist, The Am Law Daily
October 2, 2017
Time for another edition of quick and dirty news. Here's what's catching my eye.
Jones Day Gets Trumpier
President Trump might not be the darling of Big Law (remember, those elite lawyers tend to skew liberal), but he seems to have no problem recruiting from Jones Day. What's more, some of those Jones Day lawyers who've moved over to the administration are in the forefront promoting his conservative social agenda, like limiting gay rights. ... First, let's try to do a quick count of Jones Day lawyers who have hopped over to the Trump administration. There's Don McGahn, the mysterious White House counsel, and the coterie he brought over to work in other top positions (even as early as January, 12 Jones Day lawyers had landed in Trumpland). And goodness knows how many minion associates have followed in their footsteps.
Recently, the Trump administration has slotted more Jones Day folks for top jobs, according to The National Law Journal:
• Former associate Stephen Vaden for general counsel of the Department of Agriculture.
• Labor and employment partner Eric Dreiband for assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
• Partner Dana Baiocco to head the Consumer Products Safety Commission.
And which Jones Day alums are pushing to curb gay rights? Let's start with the cake wars now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court (a Colorado baker is refusing to provide wedding cakes for gay couples because of his Christian beliefs). A sizable number of Jones Day alums in the Office of Solicitor General signed the amicus brief supporting the baker/cake "artist," including Chad Readler, John Gore, Hashim Mooppan and Brinton Lucas. As Marcia Coyle reports in the NLJ, the decision to support the baker was contentious within the DOJ.
And in another hot-button case involving gay rights, ex-Jones Day now DOJ lawyer Hashim Mooppan argued that employers have the right to fire people for sexual orientation, reports Vice News. Mooppan, who also signed the wedding cake brief, made this argument before the 13 judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: ... "Employers under Title VII are permitted to consider employees' out-of-work sexual conduct. There is a commonsense, intuitive difference between sex and sexual orientation." ... Not sure what Mooppan is saying there. In any case, I'm guessing he won't be invited to the next LGBT affinity group meeting at Jones Day or elsewhere. ... So who says Big Law folks finds Trump's positions abhorrent? My prediction: Jones Day's reputation as a right-wing firm will solidify, and it will attract a lot more recruits of that ilk.
