Kerry Lee Morgan - Wyandotte, MI

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Detroit College of Law, Detroit, Michigan, 1981

• Non Legal Education

  • Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1985
    M.A.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Major: Public Policy
  • Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1977
    B.A.
    Honors: With Honors
    Major: Political Science
    Major: Criminal Justice

Current Employment Position(s)

• Of Counsel

Past Positions

• U.S. Bicentennial Project for Regent University, Director
• United States Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C, Attorney-Advisor

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Professor, Business Law, William Tyndale College, Farmington Hills, Michigan, 1995 - 2002

Representative Cases

• For Amicus, Smith v. Board of Sch. Comm'rs
  • Citation: 827 F.2d 684
  • Court: 11th Cir.
  • Year: 1987
• Grutter v. Bollinger
  • Citation: 16 F. Supp. 2d 797
  • Court: E.D. Mich.
  • Year: 1998
• Grutter v. Bollinger
  • Citation: Rev.188 F.3d 394
  • Court: 6th Cir
  • Year: 1999
• Gratz v. Bollinger
  • Citation: 122 F. Supp. 2d 811
  • Court: E.D. Mich.
  • Year: 2000
• On Brief, Gratz v. Bollinger
  • Citation: 539 U.S. 244
  • Year: 2003
• On Brief, Grutter v. Bollinger
  • Citation: 539 U.S. 306
  • Year: 2003
• United States ex rel. Mich. Natural Res. Comm'n v. Wayne County
  • Citation: 280 F. Supp. 2d 726
  • Court: E.D. Mich.
  • Year: 2003
• United States v. Wayne County
  • Citation: 369 F.3d 508
  • Court: 6th Cir.
  • Year: 2004
• United States v. Wayne County
  • Citation: 406 F. Supp. 2d 760
  • Court: E.D. Mich.
  • Year: 2005
• On Brief, City of Riverview v. Surface Transp. Bd.
  • Citation: 398 F.3d 434
  • Court: 6th Cir.
  • Year: 2005
• Coalition v. Granholm
  • Citation: 240 F.R.D. 368
  • Court: E.D. Mich.
  • Year: 2006
• Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Granholm
  • Citation: 473 F.3d 237
  • Court: 6th Cir.
  • Year: 2006
• Morgan v. United States DOJ
  • Citation: 473 F. Supp. 2d 756
  • Court: E.D. Mich.
  • Year: 2007
• People v. Walters
  • Citation: 266 Mich. App. 341
  • Court: Mich. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2005
• City of Riverview v. Sibley Limestone
  • Citation: 270 Mich. App. 627
  • Court: Mich. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2006

Published Works

Articles

• Unalienable Rights, Equality and the Free Exercise of Religion
  
• The Unalienable Right of Government by Consent and The Independent Agency
  
• The Declaration of Independence and American Education
  
• First We Defend Law, Then We Defend Life: What The Pro-Life Movement Needs After 30 Years of Failure, 2005
  
• "Real Choice, Real Freedom in American Education, The Legal and Constitutional Case for Parental Rights and Against Governmental Control of American Education", University Press of America, 1997
  
• The Unalienable Right of Government by Consent and the Independent Agency, 1990
• "A Declaration of Universal Rights", CFJ International, 1988
• A Constitutional Presidency, 1987
• The Declaration of Independence and American Education, 1986
• Comment, Secular Humanism and Equal Protection: Focusing on Marital and Parental Status as Factors Determining Permissible Gender-Based Classifications and Their Impact on Family Integrity, Detroit College Law Review 821, 1980
• Note, People v. Wheeler: Has California Really Assured Impartial Juries by Revision of the Peremptory Challenge?, Detroit College Law Review, 527, 1997

Bar Admissions

• Michigan, 1981
• Virginia, 1993
• District of Columbia, 1990
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1981
• U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 1993
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1986
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1986

Other Affiliations

• State Bar of Michigan
• Virginia State Bar
• District of Columbia Bar
• License, Federal Firearms, 1991-2003