Dylan Moore

Litigation Fellow

Dylan Moore is a Litigation Fellow at the Institute for Justice. He returns to IJ after working as a Dave Kennedy Fellow in the summer of 2020.

Before coming back to IJ, Dylan clerked for the Honorable Robert T. Numbers, II, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He also spent a summer as a Legal Intern at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

Dylan—a native Midwesterner—received his undergraduate degree in business economics and public policy from Indiana University. He went on to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School. During law school, he served as the Executive Articles Editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, the university’s topical law journal.

Dylan's Cases

Immunity and Accountability | Private Property

Family seeks to hold officer accountable after he led SWAT raid at wrong house

Everyone who visits a home for the first time—including delivery drivers, plumbers, and Girl Scouts—knows that you have to make sure you have the right address before barging in. Somehow, Waxahachie Police Department (WPD) Lieutenant…

Virginia food truck owners file federal lawsuit after raging town councilmember damaged truck, town council repeatedly harassed them

Theslet Benoir and Clemene Bastien are a married couple that immigrated to the United States from Haiti in 2005. They received asylum, settled in Parksley, Virginia, and opened a brick-and-mortar store that caters to the…

Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Occupational Licensing | Occupational Speech

California PI License

Jay Fink has a simple business. If you’re a Californian getting too much spam, he’ll look through your junk folder and pull out the emails that might violate California’s anti-spam law. Then you can decide…

Eminent Domain | Private Property

Home and business owners only found out their properties were branded as “slum or blighted” long after the time to legally challenge the label in state court passed

Ocean Springs, Mississippi declared properties in parts of the city blighted slums in a secretive process. Now, property owners are suing to protect their homes, businesses, and a church.

Immunity and Accountability | Private Property

Task-Force Immunity and Accountability

Can a local police offifcer launder her lies and deceit through a state-federal task force to hide behind absolute federal immunity? IJ doesn’t think so, but with the help of the federal government, St. Paul…