Attorney Muise has argued cases and represented clients in United States District Courts in California, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Washington, and Washington, D.C.  He has argued cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits.  He has also argued cases before the Massachusetts Supreme Court, the California Court of Appeals, and the Navy/Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals. 

 

Case highlights include, among others, the following:

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United States v. LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, USMC, (successfully defended a Marine battalion commander from politically-motivated criminal charges arising out of an insurgent attack against his Marines in Haditha, Iraq in November 2005) (General Court Martial and Navy/Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals)

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Bible Believers v. Wayne County, (won a First Amendment civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a group of Christians who were ordered to leave a festival under threat of arrest after the Christians were assaulted by an angry mob of protestors; the Wayne County sheriffs threatened to arrest the Christians because their message was “disturbing the peace”; the Sixth Circuit, sitting en banc (full court), ruled in favor of the Christians) (Sixth Circuit, en banc)

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Saieg v. City of Dearborn, (successfully challenged the City’s restriction on a Christian pastor’s right to distribute religious literature at a festival) (Sixth Circuit)

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Hansen v. Ann Arbor Public Schools, (successfully challenged the school district’s restriction on a Christian student’s right to express her religious views during the school’s “diversity week”) (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan)

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City of Dearborn v. David Wood, et al., (successfully defended four Christian missionaries, who were criminally charged with breaching the peace because they were evangelizing at an Arab festival) (Michigan District Court)

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Nieto v. Flatau, (successfully challenged a speech restriction at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina that prohibited a retired combat Marine, who was grieving the loss of his son who was killed by Islamic terrorists on the USS Cole, from displaying various decals and signs on his vehicle condemning such acts because officials claimed that the decals and signs were offensive) (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina)

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Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. v. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, (successfully defended a pro-life group’s free speech rights against the sheriff department’s unconstitutional application of a state statute) (Ninth Circuit)

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Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. v. City of Springboro, (successfully defended a pro-life group’s free speech rights and its members’ right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures against actions taken by two city police departments and the FBI) (Sixth Circuit)

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City of Dearborn v. Jones, (successfully reversed a “peace bond” judgment and speech-restricting injunction entered against a Christian pastor who wanted to hold a free speech rally outside of a local mosque) (Michigan Circuit Court)

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Satawa v. Macomb County Road Commission, (successfully challenged the government’s restriction on the display of a nativity scene on a public median during Christmas, restoring the 60-year holiday tradition) (Sixth Circuit)

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American Freedom Defense Initiative v. King County, (won a First Amendment civil rights lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit after King County refused to run the ad of a nonprofit organization on the County’s public buses based on the viewpoint of the ad) (Ninth Circuit)

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Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. v. The Irvine Company, (won an important free speech case under the California Constitution, permitting the display of images of aborted fetuses in Pruneyard shopping centers) (California Court of Appeals)

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American Freedom Defense Initiative v. Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation, (won an important First Amendment case, establishing precedent on the issue of viewpoint discrimination in a nonpublic forum) (Sixth Circuit)

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Ness v. City of Bloomington, (won an important First Amendment case involving the right to videotape in a public forum) (Eighth Circuit)

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Catholic Healthcare Inc. v. Genoa Charter Township, Michigan (won a preliminary injunction permitting the Catholic group to display religious symbols and to hold religious worship on its property in the township) (Sixth Circuit)

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Keefer v. Biden (filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of eleven members of the U.S. House of Representatives)

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COURT ADMISSIONS

 

Attorney Muise is admitted to practice in the following jurisdictions:

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Michigan State Bar (all state courts of Michigan)

 

U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan                             

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan                           

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia                                          

U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York                         

U.S. District Court, Western District of New York                          

U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio                            

 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit                                        

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit                                   

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit                                       

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit                                    

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit                                       

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit                                   

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit                                     

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit                                     

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit                                    

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit                                

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit                                        

 

Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces                                             

U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals                                    

 

United States Supreme Court

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