John B. Roesler is an accomplished trial and appellate attorney who has obtained precedent-setting results in federal court litigation. He brings his skills and mature judgment to the following areas of civil rights through extensive experience before the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit as well as U.S. Supreme Court practice. He was recommended for appointment as Circuit Judge, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, by then U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman during the Obama administration.
In the area of school law, Mr. Roesler litigated his Garcia v. Miera case through all levels of the federal courts, U.S. District Court, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court, which case established public school children’s Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest protection from excessive punishment. The Garcia v. Miera decision has formed the basis for jury instructions in cases of educator misconduct. His work is published in a treatise for American Jurisprudence, 48 Am. Jur. Trials 587, and has been discussed in Newsweek, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In the area of ADA protection of persons with disabilities, Mr. Roesler recently fought an ADA case against the University of Colorado Medical School all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. His litigation practice includes prisoner rights and all educational levels, private and public, primary and secondary, as well as higher education, college, university and professional schools, including representation of medical school students.
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