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Eric C. Rassbach, Esq.

National Litigation Director
The Becket Fund
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Eric Rassbach directs The Becket Fund's domestic litigation practice.  Since coming to The Becket Fund in 2004, Eric has represented Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and other litigants, including churches and religious schools across the country, the nation's oldest Hindu Temple, a Jewish inmate in the Texas state prison system, and schoolchildren in both California and New Hampshire who are defendants in the "one Nation under God" Pledge of Allegiance litigation.

Eric has litigated cases in the United States Supreme Court, state and federal courts of appeals and in the European Court of Human Rights.  He represents both plaintiffs and defendants.

Eric holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Haverford College. He was also a scholarship student at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. At Harvard Eric was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal.  After law school, Eric clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Lee H. Rosenthal in Houston. He came to The Becket Fund after several years working in international project finance at Baker Botts.

Bar Memberships:  Texas; District of Columbia; United States Supreme Court; United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits; United States District Courts for the District of Columbia and the Eastern District of Texas.

 

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