Public-Facing Work

Amicus Briefs

• Flowers Foods v. Brock (U.S. Supreme Court). Cleo Condoravdi, Kevin Tobia, and Brandon Waldon.

• Garland v. VanDerStok (U.S. Supreme Court). Kevin Tobia, Nathan Schneider, Brandon Waldon, James Pustejovsky, and Cleo Condoravdi (July 2, 2024).
• Campos-Chaves v. Garland (U.S. Supreme Court). Lucas Champollion, Brandon Waldon, Masoud Jasbi, Willow Parks, and Cleo Condoravdi (October 25, 2023).
• Pulsifer v. U.S. (U.S. Supreme Court). Thomas R. Lee, Kevin Tobia, and Jesse Egbert (May 26, 2023).
• Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Biden (11th Circuit Court of Appeals). 280 amici including Kevin Tobia (June 7, 2022).

Op-Eds

• “The Supreme Court’s blockbuster gun case is a shot at redemption”. The Hill. Kevin Tobia, Nathan Schneider, and Brandon Waldon (July 15, 2024).
• “Give the CDC Back Its Power to Issue Mandates”. The Daily Beast. Lawrence O. Gostin and Kevin Tobia (June 9, 2022).
• “Flaws in the Textualist Argument Against the CDC Mask Mandate”. Bill of Health. Stefan Th. Gries, Michael Kranzlein, Nathan Schneider, Brian Slocum, and Kevin Tobia (May 23, 2022).

Open Letters

• Public Comment Letter to United States Sentencing Commission. Brandon Waldon, Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Nathan Schneider, Ethan Wilcox, Amir Zeldes, and Kevin Tobia (February 15, 2025).

News Pieces

• USC linguist weighs in on Supreme Court case Flowers Foods v. Brock. University of South Carolina McCausland College of Arts and Sciences News (March 12, 2026).
• How Georgetown Linguists, Legal Expert Scored a Win in Supreme Court ‘Ghost Guns’ Case. Georgetown.edu (June 12, 2025).