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David W. DeBruin, Partner DAVID W. DeBRUIN is a partner in Jenner & Block's Washington, DC office. Mr. DeBruin has handled a wide range of complex litigation matters, and he focuses his practice both on complex Supreme Court and appellate litigation and on securities fraud and white collar criminal defense matters. In doing so, Mr. DeBruin has drawn on his experience as a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and as a trial attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he handled a large number of jury and bench criminal trials. Mr. DeBruin was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court to argue and defend the judgment below in favor of the United States in Clay v. United States, 537 U.S. 522 (2003). Mr. DeBruin also served as one of the principal lawyers for Theodore B. Olson in Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988), the case involving the constitutionality of the independent counsel statute, and for Jose Padilla in Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004), the case involving the right of the President to detain an American citizen seized in this country as an "enemy combatant." In Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), and Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003), Mr. DeBruin represented Microsoft Corporation, General Electric Company, and 63 other leading American businesses in support of the efforts of the University of Michigan to admit a diverse student body in its Law School and College of Arts and Sciences. Among many other cases, Mr. DeBruin also served as lead counsel for General Dynamics Corporation in a successful defense of a trial court judgment rejecting claims of the United States in a $300 million action brought under the False Claims Act, United States v. General Dynamics Corp., 19 F.3d 770 (2d Cir. 1994); he represented Steelcase Inc. and persuaded the Court of Appeals to reverse an $8 million judgment for compensatory and punitive damages against the company and direct that judgment be entered for Steelcase, dismissing the case, Propulsion Technologies Inc. v. Attwood Corporation, 369 F.3d 896 (5th Cir. 2004); and he represented Black & Decker Corporation in National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Emhart Corp., 11 F.3d 1524 (10th Cir. 1993), in which the Court of Appeals reversed a $10 million judgment against Black & Decker and directed that judgment be entered for the company, ending the case. Prior to clerking for Justice Stevens, Mr. DeBruin served as a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. DeBruin received his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he received the Daniel H. Grady Prize, awarded to the law student with the highest scholastic average in the graduating class, and the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship. Mr. DeBruin received a Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction from Indiana University. Recent Supreme Court Cases
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