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Mark Pollot
Out of high school attended University of Rochester as an astrophysics and geology major minoring in theater arts. Joined U.S. Airforce during the Viet Nam war and, after leaving the Air Force, became an R.N. for nearly 20 years and spent 17 years every summer as a camp nurse at a Boy Scout camp in Pennsylvania. For fun. was involved in community theater and summer stock for most of those twenty years. Later, went to law school. Executive Director of the Foundation for Constitutional Law, an attorney, and independent consultant on constitutional, environmental, international, and public policy matters at the National Policy Center. Formerly the Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a special litigator in the Department's Civil Rights Division. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of San Diego Law School with awards for achievement in constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, evidence law, corporate law, and the law of federal jurisdiction. Member of the University of San Diego Law Review. Received the Attorney General's Special Achievement Award in recognition of his work to protect individual rights in the United States Department of Justice.
Authored Executive Order 12630 (the takings order), signed by President Reagan on March 15, 1988, and the Order's implementing Attorney General's Guidelines. Have represented and advised the United States and its various agencies in almost all areas of environmental and constitutional law, including matters with national policy implications.
In 1988, entered private practice. In private practice represented clients ranging from small private developers and individual property owners to state legislatures, large agricultural concerns, and corporate clients in land use, environmental, federal land management, and constitutional matters before state and federal courts and federal state, and local agencies. Formerly a partner in the Chicago-based law firm of Keck, Mahin & Cate, and left that position in July 1994 to enter into the non-profit arena.
Also a Research Fellow with the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, based in San Francisco. Authored Grand Theft and Petit Larceny: Property Rights in America, an international award-winning book on the law and policy implications of property rights protection. A member of the bars of several state and federal courts, including, among others, the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Published many articles on constitutional and environmental issues, is a frequent speaker on history, and on environmental, land use, and related law, and on constitutional law and rights as well as on policy issues before a wide variety of audiences. Authored and consulted on federal and state legislation aimed at protecting constitutional rights, has drafted model legislation for the American Legislative Exchange Council, Has frequently testified before Congress and various state legislatures and drafted legislation for legislators at the national, state, and local levels.
A member of, and has served as an advisor and consultant to, numerous national and local foundations, institutes, grassroots, and other organizations which concern themselves with Constitutional, environmental, land use, international, and public policy issues. Have appeared as a guest on numerous television and radio programs across the country from Guam to Washington, D.C., including shows hosted by such prominent personalities as G. Gordon Liddy.
Have three children, am still married and keeping busy. Am currently setting a new non-profit constitutional advocacy resource center.
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