About The Authors

Jaimie Cavanaugh

Jaimie Cavanaugh is a litigator with the Institute for Justice. Her practice focuses on protecting economic liberty, private property rights and free speech. Jaimie is currently representing entrepreneurs in Kentucky seeking to eliminate the state’s certificate of need law which prevents them from providing home health services to refugees and immigrants. Jaimie studied linguistics and German at the University of Michigan and earned her J.D. from the University of Colorado. Following law school, she completed a judicial fellowship with Justice Monica M. Márquez of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Caroline Grace Brothers

Caroline Grace Brothers is a constitutional law fellow at the Institute for Justice. She earned her law degree from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where she worked as a Writing Fellow in the Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis program, and as an Alexander Hamilton Fellow with the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. In addition to clerking at IJ for a summer and a semester, Caroline Grace worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.

Adam Griffin

Adam Griffin is a constitutional law fellow at the Institute for Justice. He received his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he served as President of the Federalist Society. He also served as an editor on the North Carolina First Amendment Law Review and as a judicial intern for the Honorable Robert Numbers in the Eastern District of North Carolina and for Justice Paul Newby of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Adam also worked as a research assistant for UNC Law Dean Martin Brinkley and Duke Law Professor Stephen Sachs.

Richard Hoover

Richard M. Hoover serves as a constitutional law fellow at the Institute for Justice. He graduated from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University where he was a Pro Bono Scholar. He also worked as a Student Attorney with the Barbara C. Salken Criminal Justice Clinic. Prior to joining IJ, Richard worked at a litigation firm based in New York.

Melissa LoPresti

Melissa LoPresti joined IJ in 2011. She currently serves as the litigation projects & training programs manager. In that role, Melissa works with IJ’s leadership team on the day-to-day management of IJ’s current and upcoming cases, training efforts and attorney network.

John Wrench

John Wrench is a constitutional law fellow at the Institute for Justice. John received his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. During law school, he served as editor in chief of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law and was a member of the Federalist Society. John interned in his law school’s First Amendment Litigation Clinic and was a judicial extern to the Honorable Paul E. Davison in the Southern District of New York.