Allison Hartry - San Antonio, TX

Overview

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, California, 2012
    J.D.
    Law Review: California Law Review, Senior Notes & Comments Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 2007
    B.A. High Honors
    Major: History

Past Positions

• The Honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Judicial Clerk, 2012 - 2014

Pro Bono Activities

• Texas Fair Defense Project Board of Directors: President 2022 to Present; Secretary, 2020 - 2022

Representative Cases

• Anderson v. Valdez:
  • Citation: 845 F.3d 580 (5th Cir. 2016) (affirming denial of motion to dismiss in First Amendment retaliation case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983);
• Anderson v. Valdez:
  • Citation: 845 F.3d 580, 607 (5th Cir. 2017) (petition for rehearing denied);
• Casanova v. Gold’s Tex. Holdings Grp., Inc., No. 5:13-CV-1161-DAE:
  • Citation: 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37932 (W.D. Tex. 2016) (granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment in case interpreting Section 207(i) overtime commission exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act);
• Casanova v. Gold’s Tex. Holdings Grp., Inc., No. 5:13-CV-1161-DAE:
  • Citation: 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 161844 (W.D. Tex. Nov. 19, 2014) (granting motion for conditional certification under the Fair Labor Standards Act).
• Azar v. Benson Motor Company of San Antonio, Inc., Civil No. SA-14-CA-563, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 181481 (W.D. Tex. Mar. 19, 2015).

Published Works

Articles

• Birthright Justice: Birthright Citizenship and Reproductive Justice in Immigration Detention Centers, 36 N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change 57, 2012
  o First Place Winner, Law Students for Reproductive Justice & Center for Reproductive Rights Sarah Weddington Writing Prize (2011). o Finalist, American Constitution Society National Student Writing Competition (2011).
• Commentary, Gendering Crimmigration: The Intersection of Gender, Immigration, and the Criminal Justice System, 27 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 1 , 2012
  
• Book Note, 26 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 168 (2011) (reviewing Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America (2010))
  
• Wrongful Termination? But I Thought Texas Was An At-Will State: 23 Lesser Known Exceptions to the At-Will Doctrine, The Advocate/State Bar of Texas Litigation Section (Winter, 2014), The Advocate/State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, Winter, 2014
  

Bar Admissions

• Texas
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas

Specialties and Certifications

• Labor and Employment Law Specialist, Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Other Affiliations

• San Antonio Bar Association
• San Antonio Young Lawyers Association