WASHINGTON, DC, January 03, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Edwin E. Huddleson has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in America. He is a Washington, D.C. based lawyer, with a general practice that includes commercial law, litigation, Silicon Valley companies, vehicle and equipment leasing, and constitutional and administrative law.
After graduating from Stanford and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a Comment Editor on the University of Chicago Law Review, he served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Charles M. Merrill on the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit. Thereafter, he litigated a wide variety of nationally significant cases for the US Department of Justice in the federal courts of appeals and the US Supreme Court. These cases included, for example, a Taft-Hartley Act injunction case; the civil law presumption of death (Blew v. Richardson, 484 F.2d 889 (7th Cir. 1973)); an Establishment Clause challenge to the crèche scene in the Christmas Pageant of Peace on park land opposite the White House (Allen v. Morton, 495 F. 65 (DC Cir. 1973)); voting rights cases involving the US Attorney General's preclearance procedures under the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution; the validity of the military's drug control program in Europe (Committee for GI Rights v. Callaway, 518 F.2d 466 (DC Cir. 1975)); equal protection issues (see, e.g., Hoffman v. Fioto, 430 U.S. 634 (1977)); the jurisdiction of the US Court of Federal Claims (Testan v. United States, 424 U.S. 392 (1976)); the first "wrongful life" case in federal court; and a wide variety of cases involving court of appeals review of administrative agency action; as well as a few other cases where he wrote the government's briefs for submission to the US Supreme Court but declined to sign them because of disagreement with the government's position (specifically, a case seeking to overturn the constitutional Due Process rulings in Goldberg v Kelley, and a case seeking to overturn the successful Establishment Clause challenge to compulsory chapel attendance at the military academies (West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs)).
A member of the California, DC, Maryland, and New York bars, he has represented clients before the US Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, various trial courts and administrative agencies, Congress, and state legislatures in every State. The clients he has represented in private practice include large and small corporations; nonprofits; cabinet officers (a former US Attorney General; a former Secretary of Defense); members of the Saudi royal family; major universities; Silicon Valley start-up companies; and high tech cell phone, software, and biotech companies; as well as pro bono work for consumers, tenants, and school teachers, convicted felons (see, e.g., Cottone v. Reno, 193 F.3d 550 (D.C.Cir. 1999)), the Innocence Projects and Centurion Ministries, the ACLU and the Sierra Club; and supporting the U.S. House of Representatives rule giving Eleanor Holmes Norton and other delegates the right to vote in the Committee of the Whole (Michel v. Anderson, 14 F.3d 623 (D.C.Cir. 1994)) Torts, contracts, Superfund/RCRA cleanup (the first case to recover Superfund response costs from the federal government), administrative law issues, IP licensing for artificial blood from chemicals, patents, utility rate cases, government contract cases, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission work have all been part of his law practice.
While in private practice, he also represented the vehicle and equipment leasing industry in drafting and revising UCC Article 2A-Leases (1987, 1990, 2003), in enacting a model TRAC/state law in all 50 States and the District of Columbia, in expanding Superfund's "secured creditor" exception to cover finance lessors, and on amendments to UCC Article 9-secured transactions, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (see UETA §8(a)) and a wide variety of federal tax and regulatory issues. He served as an American-Law-Institute-appointed member of the Drafting Committee revising UCC Article 5- Letters of Credit; a member of the United States Court of Appeals, DC Circuit Committee on Procedures (2002-2008); and the Administrative Law Judge implementing federally-mandated home owners' energy conservation programs in DC.
Twice elected co-chair of the DC Bar's Administrative Law Section, which was named Section of the Year in 2015, Mr. Huddleson originated the "Administrative Law-Annual Review" program and was the originator/web site creator of the annual Harold Leventhal talks (1997-present) (available on the web - google Harold Leventhal talks)). He was a visiting lecturer on Administrative Law at Howard Univ. School of Law, and has spoken on legal issues at forums sponsored by ALI-ABA, the American Bar Association, Web Credenza, and the DC Bar, while publishing articles on commercial law (equipment leasing, environmental law), criminal procedure, administrative law, constitutional law, and appellate advocacy. He is a member of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He has been included in Who's Who in America since 2000. Other information-- including his most recent article, Chevron, Costs, and the Major Question Doctrine (December 2016) - is available at www.edwinhuddleson.com.
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