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Kyle Duncan

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Kyle Duncan was formerly general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, where he was lead counsel representing Hobby Lobby Stores in its challenge to the HHS mandate. He is now a lawyer in private practice for the firm of Schaerr Duncan LLP in Washington, D.C. Kyle was also previously solicitor general of Louisiana from 2008 to 2011, where he argued numerous appeals in state and federal courts, including the US Supreme Court. From 2004 to 2008 Duncan was an assistant professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he taught courses on constitutional law, church-state relations, and free speech. He was assistant solicitor general in the Texas Attorney General’s Office from 1999 to 2002. Duncan received a J.D. from Louisiana State University in 1997 and an LL.M. From Columbia Law School in 2004; he clerked under Judge John M. Duhe, Jr. at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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