Michael Gottesman
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Michael H. Gottesman is a lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of labor law, constitutional law, and civil rights. He practiced and became a partner with the Washington, D.C., firm Bredhoff and Kaiser from 1961-1988.
After attending the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, Gottesman worked as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. He has served as a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission for the District of Columbia; the Executive Board of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its Amicus subcommittee; and the Legal Committee of the American Association of University Professors. He has argued 20 cases in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.
| Case | Argued | Decided | Represented |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber of Commerce v. Brown, No.06-939 | March 19, 2008 | June 19, 2008 | Respondents |
| Semtek International Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497 | December 5, 2000 | February 27, 2001 | Petitioner |
| Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel. Zimring, 527 U.S. 581 | April 21, 1999 | June 22, 1999 | Respondents |
| General Electric v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136 | October 14, 1997 | December 15, 1997 | Respondents |
| BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 | October 11, 1995 | May 20, 1996 | Respondent |
| Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick, 514 U.S. 280 | February 22, 1995 | April 18, 1995 | Respondents |
| Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., 509 U.S. 579 | March 30, 1993 | June 28, 1993 | Petitioner |
| Richardson-Merrell, Inc. v. Koller, 472 U.S. 424 | February 26, 1985 | June 17, 1985 | Respondents |
| Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp., 464 U.S. 238 | October 4, 1983 | January 11, 1984 | Petitioner |
| United Steelworkers of Am. v. Sadlowski, 457 U.S. 102 | March 31, 1982 | June 14, 1982 | Petitioner |
| Pullman-Standard, Div. of Pullman v. Swint, 456 U.S. 273 | January 19, 1982 | April 27, 1982 | Petitioners |
| United Steelworkers v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 | March 28, 1979 | June 27, 1979 | Petitioner |
| Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274 | November 3, 1976 | January 11, 1977 | Respondent |
| Franks v. Bowman Transp. Co., 424 U.S. 747 | November 3, 1975 | March 24, 1976 | Respondent |
| Dunlop v. Bachowski, 421 U.S. 560 | April 21, 1975 | June 2, 1975 | Respondent |
| Perry v. Sindermann, 408 U.S. 593 | January 18, 1972 | June 29, 1972 | Respondent |
| Hodgson v. United Steelworkers of America, 403 U.S. 333 | March 23, 1971 | June 14, 1971 | Respondents |
| Dyke v. Taylor Implement Mfg. Co., 391 U.S. 216 | January 18, 1968 | May 20, 1968 | Petitioners |
| Nash v. Florida Industrial Com., 389 U.S. 235 | November 9, 1967 | December 5, 1967 | Petitioner |
| United Steelworkers of America v. R. H. Bouligny, Inc., 382 U.S. 145 | October 21, 1965 | November 22, 1965 | Petitioner |