Gregory G. Garre

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Full Name	Gregory G. Garre
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Nov 1, 1964(1964-11-01)
Age	60
Country	United States
Birth City	Berwyn
Horoscope	Scorpio

Gregory G. Garre Biography

Gregory G. Garre is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on November 1, 1964 in Berwyn, United States. Gregory G. Garre (born November 1st 1964) is an American lawyer who was the 44th United States Solicitor General from June 19, 2008 until January 16 in 2009. Garre is currently an associate with Latham & Watkins, a private law firm.

Garre returned to the government in September of 2005 as Principal Solicitor General’s Deputy. In this capacity Garre represented the government on Munaf V. Geren, 553 U.S. 674 (2008) in which he argued at the Supreme Court that U.S. federal courts were not competent in the case of 2 U.S. citizens being held by the military in Iraq in accordance with Hirota V. MacArthur, a 1948 Supreme Court case that “rejected habeas corpus petitions from Japanese prisoners who had been convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal”. He also triumphed in Baze in Baze v. Rees (2008).

On September 8, 2009, he joined the law firm Latham & Watkins, where he leads the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group. In 2014, Garre was elected to both the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. He has taught classes on constitutional law and the U.S. Supreme Court at George Washington University Law School, his alma mater, and he is a member of the advisory board of the Georgetown University Law School’s Supreme Court Institute.

At Latham & Watkins, he successfully represented the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in April 2010 in the Supreme Court case Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, which the firm took on pro bono. A little over a week later, he successfully represented Monsanto in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, overturning the Ninth Circuit’s injunction on genetically engineered pesticide-resistant alfalfa. In October 2011 he successfully argued Maples v. Thomas. In October 2012, he unsuccessfully represented the University of Texas at Austin in Fisher v. University of Texas, a high-profile constitutional challenge to its admissions policy in which the Supreme Court issued a 7–1 decision to vacate a lower court’s decision which was in favour of the university. In November 2012, he successfully represented Ball State University in Vance v. Ball State University, a case about employment discrimination in which the Supreme Court issued a 5–4 decision in favor of Ball State.

Then, he went into private practice at his Washington, D.C. law firm Hogan & Hartson from 1993 until 2000. In September 2000, Garre was appointed to in the Office of the Solicitor General within the Department of Justice as Assistant to the Solicitor General. In this role in August 2002 he represented the government in Hamdi in v. Rumsfeld 243 F. Supp. 2d 527 (E.D. Va. 2002) The case is notable because it was “the first in modern American jurisprudence in which an American citizen has been indefinitely detained without charges and without access to a lawyer”, and faced a barrage of questions from Justice Robert G. Doumar. He also appeared in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. He was back at Hogan & Hartson in July 2004.

Gregory G. Garre Net Worth

Gregory G. Garre is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gregory G. Garre 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gregory G. Garre was born in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, and was raised within Barrington, Illinois, where he was educated at Barrington school for children of the public. He graduated with honors in 1987 at Dartmouth College, where he was a Rufus Choate Scholar, with the distinction of a B.A. in government. In 1991 He graduated with top distinction at George Washington University Law School in which he served as editor-in-chief in The George Washington Law Review and was appointed to the Order of the Coif.

Garre was a clerk as Chief Judge Anthony Joseph Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1991-92), and later for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court (1992-93). He was the pallbearer of Rehnquist’s funeral in the month of September, 2005.

He became Acting Solicitor General on June 19, 2008, when his predecessor Paul Clement resigned. The same day, President George W. Bush nominated him to be Solicitor General. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate unanimously on October 2, 2008. According to his bio on the Latham & Watkins website, he is “the only person to have held all of those positions”.

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