Matt K. Nguyen

Cooley today filed an amicus brief on behalf of social and racial justice nonprofits in TikTok Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland (US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit) challenging the federal legislation banning TikTok – a modern-day digital town square used by more than 150 million US users to engage in First Amendment-protected expression – on free speech and equal protection grounds.

Cooley, alongside co-counsel Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, filed amicus briefs on behalf of 50+ current and former chief information security officers and cybersecurity organizations in Securities and Exchange Commission v. SolarWinds Corp. and Timothy G. Brown, which is pending in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Cooley filed an amicus brief representing many of the nation’s top neuroscience, psychology and juvenile justice scholars in support of protecting emerging adults aged 18 to 20 from receiving sentences of life without parole pursuant to the Eighth Amendment and the Massachusetts Constitution.

Cooley filed an amicus brief representing more than 25 of the nation’s leading neuroscience, psychology, and juvenile justice scholars and nonprofits in the pending California Supreme Court merits case, People v. Hardin.

Cooley represented plaintiff and appellant Debra Turner in successfully petitioning the California Supreme Court to review her case and in achieving a sweeping victory on the merits for Turner and for all California charities.