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| Born | May 9, 1975 |
| Education | University of Notre Dame (BS) Harvard Law School |
Brian Timothy Fitzpatrick (born May 9, 1975) is an American academic and lawyer. Fitzpatrick is known for his unorthodox advocacy of class action lawsuits from a conservative point of view, [1] [2] [3] and is the author of a book on the subject, The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press, 2019). [4]
Fitzpatrick received a Bachelor of Science in 1997 from the University of Notre Dame where he was the first runner up to Valedictorian. [5] He received the Fay Diploma for the highest combined average for three years in his class at Harvard Law School in 2000. [6]
Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt University Law School in 2007 after spending time as a John M. Olin Fellow at the New York University School of Law. He has clerked for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Between his time as a clerk and professor, Fitzpatrick worked as an associate in Sidley Austin's Washington, D.C. office and as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to Senator John Cornyn. He teaches several courses at Vanderbilt, including Federal Courts and a seminar on the relationship between judges and politics. [7]
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (FedSoc) is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has chapters at more than 200 law schools and features student, lawyer, and faculty divisions; the lawyers division comprises more than 70,000 practicing attorneys in ninety cities. Through speaking events, lectures, and other activities, it provides a forum for legal experts of opposing views to interact with members of the legal profession, the judiciary, and the legal academy. It is one of the most influential legal organizations in the United States.
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AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011), is a legal dispute that was decided by the United States Supreme Court. On April 27, 2011, the Court ruled, by a 5–4 margin, that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws that prohibit contracts from disallowing class-wide arbitration, such as the law previously upheld by the California Supreme Court in the case of Discover Bank v. Superior Court. As a result, businesses that include arbitration agreements with class action waivers can require consumers to bring claims only in individual arbitrations, rather than in court as part of a class action.
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