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Vaidehi Mehta is a lawyer and writer for FindLaw.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Vaidehi got her legal education at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was on the editorial board of the gender and law journal and a Dean's Scholar. Vaidehi has been an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Washington and a judicial clerk at the Oregon Court of Appeals. She has also volunteered at the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project.
Most of all, Vaidehi likes to write about the law. She’s found her happy place writing content for FindLaw's Constitution pages, legal news blogs, and resource articles. Nerd for the law that she is, Vaidehi likes to focus on complicated cases with deep legal questions, issues of first impression, questions before the U.S. Supreme Court, and constitutional conundrums.
When she’s not writing about the law, Vaidehi likes to pretend to work on her adapted screenplay. But more often, she travels, sings (badly), paints, exercises (with varying degrees of success), and reads.
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One man at the Atlanta airport got in trouble with the feds over an allegedly wiped cell phone. Now, his case has become a vehicle for testing how far the government can go when it interrogates activists at the border without a warrant or Miranda warnings. Meet the Defendant…
A library isn’t the first place you’d expect a protest showdown. But when a Kansas public library tried to keep signs, protests, and “free speech activities” out of its reading rooms, a local activist sued, claiming his First Amendment rights were buried along with his posters. In a case called…
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James Henrikson did what most people only threaten in anger and never carry out: he hired hit men when his business relationships went bad. Now, a Ninth Circuit panel has vacated some of his solicitation convictions. Not because the court doubted the brutality of his conduct, but because of…
A federal prosecutor in Seattle had the shortest tenure most lawyers will ever read about: Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington early one morning, and within an hour the Trump administration emailed to tell him he was fired. That whiplash move is…
Just a few months ago, we wrote about what it means for state judges to live with the fear that someone angry about a case might show up at their front door with a gun. We pointed out that if you decide cases for a living, a safety risk…
Once upon a time, “smart glasses” seemed like a novelty gimmick that actually worked only in sci-fi movies. But with rapidly growing artificial intelligence capabilities, these gizmos are starting to be taken seriously. And the law around them is trying to catch up. Recently, that has meant privacy suits over…
Self-driving cars might be the future, but not everyone is a fan. Some people are apprehensive about their safety. Others, like some of the FindLaw staff, are annoyed at them being too safe (is it really necessary to stop and wait behind every USPS truck delivering mail?!). But one…