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Curtis E. Gannon (born October 7, 1973) is an American lawyer. He is a Deputy Solicitor General, a career position, in the Office of the
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. He previously served as the Principal Deputy
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for the
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of the
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. He was appointed to this position on January 20, 2017, by President
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.


Early life and education

Gannon graduated from
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
in 1994 and earned his master's degree at
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, before earning a J.D. from the
University of Chicago Law School The University of Chicago Law School is the Law school in the United States, law school of the University of Chicago, a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It employs more than 180 full-time and part-time facul ...
(where he was an editor of the
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) in 1998.


Legal career

Prior to assuming office as acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Gannon was assistant to the
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. Before that, Gannon was in private practice at
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. Gannon clerked for Supreme Court Justice
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during the 2004 Term, and Fifth Circuit Judge
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. In 2014, Gannon argued the work shift case of '' Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk'' on behalf of the Government. During oral arguments, Justice Kagan posed a hypothetical to him: There was a federal judge in New York "ages ago . . . who had his clerks — all that they did was help him with his opinions and his cases and that was their principal activity — but had his clerks come early in order to cut his grapefruit and otherwise make breakfast for him." Is cutting grapefruit compensable? The identity of the judge whose clerks prepared grapefruit was later revealed as
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of the
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. On January 27, 2017, Gannon issued a memorandum approving the legality of
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, the controversial "refugee ban" limiting immigration from seven countries. Upon the confirmation of
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on November 7, 2017, Gannon's tenure as Acting Assistant Attorney General concluded. In August 2020, he returned to the Office of the Solicitor General as a career Deputy. Gannon is a member of the
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.


See also

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List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9) Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Mos ...


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