Manny Klausner

Owner @Reason Foundation

Los Angeles, CA, US

Klausner has been engaged in complex and significant litigation involving constitutional law, election law, media law, intellectual property, and business litigation matters. Klausner has represented clients in many high-profile cases, including the West Florida Intervenors in the Presidential election cases in Florida and the U.S. Supreme Court, Gore v. Harris and Bush v. Gore; Matt Drudge in the defamation action brought by Sidney Blumenthal, President Clinton’s senior advisor, in 1997 (U.S. Dist. Ct. D.D.C.); the proponents of Proposition 209 in Coalition for Economic Equity v. Wilson (9th Cir.)(upholding constitutionality of Proposition 209\'s ban on governmental racial preferences); and Ward Connerly and Governor Pete Wilson as amicus curiae in Hi-Voltage Wire Works v. San Jose (Cal. Sup. Ct.).

New York University School of Law

LL.B.,LL.M.

UCLA

A.B., Political Science