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Ian Heath Gershengorn, Partner IAN HEATH GERSHENGORN is a partner in Jenner & Block's Washington, DC office. He is a member of the Firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice and has considerable experience in telecommunications, media and constitutional law, and Indian law. Mr. Gershengorn argued Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation before the U.S. Supreme Court in October 2005. He frequently represents clients in appellate matters in the Supreme Court and at the federal Courts of Appeals. He has represented numerous parties in Supreme Court merits cases, including the motion picture and recording industries in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster; NextWave Telecom Inc. in FCC v. NextWave Personal Communications Inc.; Kevin Wiggins in Wiggins v. Smith; Clarence Hill in Hill v. McDonough; Jeffrey Landrigan in Schriro v. Landrigan; and MCI in Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC and AT&T Corp. v. Iowa Utilities Board. He has also served as counsel of record in numerous amicus briefs before the Court, including a brief on behalf of the defense industry addressing government contracting practices, and a brief in connection with litigation over the Ten Commandments. Mr. Gershengorn has an active Indian law practice, with particular emphasis on Supreme Court and appellate litigation. In addition to arguing the Wagnon case, he also successfully argued before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Carcieri v. Norton, a case challenging the authority of the United States to take land into trust for Tribes. He has filed amicus briefs supporting the Tribes and tribal interests at the Supreme Court, including Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt; City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York; and Inyo County v. Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony. He also successfully opposed certiorari in South Dakota v. Cummings, a case involving the authority of state officials in hot pursuit to arrest a tribal member on the reservation for a misdemeanor committed off the reservation. Before coming to Jenner & Block in 1997, Mr. Gershengorn served for two years in the U.S. Department of Justice, first as Special Assistant and Counsel to Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, and then as Assistant to Attorney General Janet Reno. At the Justice Department, Mr. Gershengorn worked on a variety of civil and civil rights matters, and also coordinated the Department’s responses to the Judicial Conference of the United States, the American Bar Association, and other organizations on rules-related issues. Mr. Gershengorn received his A.B. magna cum laude in 1988 from Harvard College and his J.D. magna cum laude in 1993 from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Mr. Gershengorn served as a law clerk first for Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as of the Supreme Court of the United States and numerous federal courts of appeals. Recent Supreme Court Cases
Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (2005) Admissions and Certifications
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