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Tahir Duckett

Attorney

Tahir Duckett is an Attorney at Relman Colfax. Tahir joined the firm in 2019, after previously serving as a summer associate at the firm in 2016. In his civil rights litigation practice, Tahir works on a variety of cases involving discrimination in housing, employment, education, lending, public accommodations, and policing.

Tahir’s work largely focuses on racial justice. He is currently part of the team challenging Fannie Mae’s discriminatory maintenance of its “real estate owned” properties around the country. Tahir is also contributing to the representation of children poisoned by contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan.

Prior to joining the firm, Tahir served as a law clerk to the Honorable George J. Hazel on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He previously worked as the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow at Public Citizen, where he assisted public interest parties in opposing certiorari before the United States Supreme Court. Before going to law school, Tahir spent a decade working as an organizer for the labor movement and other progressive causes.

Tahir worked his way through law school at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he graduated magna cum laude as a Public Interest Law Scholar. He was a founding executive committee member of Law For Black Lives-DC, an organization providing legal and policy support to the Movement for Black Lives in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Tahir is also the Founder of ReThink, a DC-based organization dedicated to preventing sexual violence.

Featured Cases

Goodwin et al. v. District of Columbia et al.
This lawsuit, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and state common law, alleges the excessive use of force and suppression of free speech by the District of Columbia in its mass arrest of peaceful “Black Lives Matter” protesters on Swann Street on June 1, 2020.
Deakin v. Old Town Triangle Association
This Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleges that a powerful neighborhood association discriminated against a Chicago family attempting to renovate a single family home to make it accessible for their daughter.
National Fair Housing Alliance v. Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae")
This systemic housing discrimination case against the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) challenges Fannie Mae’s discriminatory maintenance of its “real estate owned” (REO) properties around the country.

Publications

T. Duckett, Note, Unreasonably Immune: Rethinking Qualified Immunity in Fourth Amendment Excessive Force Cases, 53 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 409 (2016)

In the Media

Family Who Wants To Add Garage To Historic Home For Daughter In Wheelchair Sues Old Town Group Trying To Block It
Block Club Chicago, 12.20.2019

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude

B.A., Emory University

Admissions

District of Columbia

Clerkships

Hon. George J. Hazel, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland

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