Amanda Shafer Berman

Climate, Energy, and Environmental

• Arguing on behalf of an aircraft manufacturer before the D.C. Circuit in litigation addressing the EPA’s first-ever greenhouse gas regulations for commercial planes.
• Defense of a municipal water authority client’s expansion of a hydropower project, dam, and reservoir in district court and before the 10th Circuit.
• Arguing successfully on behalf of several major chemical companies in defense of EPA pesticide registration decisions before the 9th and D.C. Circuits.

Appellate and Administrative Law

• Challenging and defending, on behalf of an ERISA plan administrator, a series of district court decisions regarding mental health benefits claims before the Tenth Circuit.
• Successfully defending, in the 5th Circuit, a favorable decision below on behalf of a major beverage company in a trademark suit.
• Barring application of USTR and Presidential actions seeking to apply tariffs to utility-grade solar panels through litigation at the Court of International Trade, and defense of the CIT’s decision in our client’s favor before the Federal Circuit.
• Successfully arguing before the 4th Circuit on behalf of an asylum-seeker, resulting in a precedential decision addressing several important points of immigration law.

Education

• Representing an Ivy League university in challenges to student disciplinary decisions brought under Title IX in federal district court.
• Submitting a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of HBCU leaders arguing in support of allowing some consideration of race in university admissions decisions.
• Advising a financial institution that supports the Department of Education in responding to inquiries from state regulators.
• Representing an HBCU in defending Title VI, contract, and other claims in federal court.