Deepak Gupta (attorney)
Deepak Gupta is an American attorney, known for representing plaintiffs in Supreme Court and appellate cases and consumer protection, constitutional, class action and other types of complex litigation. Law360 called him "the heavy hitter of the plaintiffs class action bar".[1]
Among other causes, he is noted for representing plaintiffs in several cases against President Donald Trump and his administration.[2][3]
Early life and career
Gupta is an alumnus of the Georgetown University Law Center, and also studied Sanskrit at the University of Oxford and philosophy at Fordham University.[4] Before entering private practice, he worked at Public Citizen Litigation Group, the Voting Rights Section of the United States Department of Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He spent two years as a senior official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shortly after it was established. After leaving the CFPB, he established the Washington law firm of Gupta Wessler in 2012 with partner Matthew Wessler.[2][3] He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves on the boards of directors of several progressive advocacy organizations and research institutes.
Notable cases
- Gupta leads a class action lawsuit against the US government challenging fees for access to the PACER electronic records system.[5]
- Gupta argued the case of AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion for the respondent before the United States Supreme Court. This landmark case concerned the validity of arbitration clauses in consumer contracts.[2]
- Gupta was retained to lead litigation against President Donald Trump in 2017 based on alleged violations of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. He was chosen by Norm Eisen and Richard Painter, who respectively served as ethics advisors to the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations, in their capacity as counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.[2]
- Gupta represents Sherri Simpson in her lawsuit against President Trump relating to allegations of fraud in connection with Trump's marketing of Trump University.[6]
- Gupta represented Leandra English in her 2017 lawsuit to halt the appointment of Mick Mulvaney as head of the CFPB.[3][7]
References
- ^ "Law360 In-Depth". www.law360.com. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b c d Weinberger, Evan (2017-11-06). "The 'Damn Good Lawyer' Squaring Off With Trump - Law360". www.law360.com. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b c Crampton, Liz (2017-11-28). "Lawyer in CFPB Fight Is Frequent Trump Foe". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Deepak Gupta, Appellate Advocate, Principal at Gupta Wessler". guptawessler.com. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Electronic filing coming to the Supreme Court". WTNH Connecticut News. 2017-11-11. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ^ Dolan, Maura. "Appeals court weighs whether to reject Trump University settlement so former student can take the president to trial". latimes.com. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ^ Malloy, Allie. "Showdown over top post at key watchdog agency". CNN. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
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