They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40 - Jesse Ryan Loffler of Cozen O’Connor

Please describe two of your most substantial, recent wins in practice.
My extensive involvement in the U.S. Supreme Court case Manhattan Community Access Center v. Halleck (2019) is certainly a career highlight. The question was whether a private nonprofit operating a public access channel could be considered a “state actor” and, thus, liable for alleged First Amendment violations. The court upheld longstanding public/private distinctions, agreeing that our client was not a state actor.

More recently, I won a defense verdict following a two-day unfair trade practices trial in Pennsylvania state court on behalf of Protective Life Corp., the successor corporate ...