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Parker J. Cragg
Parker J. Cragg
Pro Bono Counsel
Pro Bono Counsel

Parker J. Cragg

Parker J. Cragg
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

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Parker J. Cragg

Experience Highlights

  • (5th Cir.) – Obtained a settlement to reopen and dismiss removal proceedings for an asylum-seeker who was persecuted by cartel members in Mexico

  • (5th Cir). – Obtained remand to the Board of Immigration Appeals from the denial of asylum for an Anglophone Cameroonian who was detained and beaten by Cameroonian authorities for participation in a protest for Anglophone rights

  • (U.S.); (5th Cir.) – Drafted appellate briefs on behalf of federal prisoner pursuing a Bivens claim involving prison officials’ retaliation for the exercise of his First Amendment rights

  • (4th Cir.) – Drafted amicus brief supporting a claim for greater press access to executions in Virginia

  • (9th Cir.) – Assisted with briefing in appeal concerning federal sentencing law, which resulted in favorable 10-to-1 opinion holding that District Courts must orally pronounce the “standard conditions” of supervised release at sentencing, overruling prior Circuit precedent to the contrary, and vacating our client’s sentence in pertinent part

  • (Tex.) – Led a team of associates in drafting an amicus brief regarding the availability of pretrial writs for habeas corpus for detainees asserting constitutional challenges to arrests pursuant to Operation Lone Star

Credentials

  • Stanford Law School, J.D. 2019 (Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review; Articles Editor, Stanford Journal for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)
  • Stanford University, M.Ed., 2019
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.A. English with high honors, 2005 (Phi Beta Kappa)
  • Judicial clerk to the Honorable George Hanks, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, 2022–2023
  • Director, Three Oaks Academy (Houston), 2011–2016
  • English Teacher, Teach For America / Chavez High School (Houston), 2005–2011
  • American Gateways, Pro Bono Awardee, 2021
  • Chavez High School Teacher of the Year, 2008–2009
  • Houston Independent School District Outstanding Young Educator, 2008–2009
  • Texas
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • Seeing and Serving Students with Substance Use Disorders Through Disability Law, 96 S. Cal. L. Rev. 355 (2022)