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Caroline Lindsay

Caroline Lindsay

Title
Senior Counsel
Division
Litigation
402-313-3480
Chicago Office

332 S Michigan Ave Suite 121 # 5612 Chicago, IL 60604

Caroline Lindsay

About

Caroline Lindsay serves as Senior Counsel and Co-Chair of the Appeals & Critical Motions practice group. She helps clients navigate significant legal issues in complex civil litigation, with a special focus on dispositive motions and appeals.

From high-profile disputes attracting nationwide media coverage to discrete investigations, Caroline has effectively advocated for her client’s interests in a wide variety of contexts and before courts at every level of the judiciary, including state and federal courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court. She specializes in arguing and drafting briefs and motions at both the trial level and on appeal, and her experience covers a broad array of subject areas, including tort law, statutory and constitutional interpretation, contract law, class actions, government regulation, employment law, and legal ethics.

Prior to joining Hilgers Graben, Caroline served as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Gregory G. Katsas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Diane S. Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Caroline began her career in private practice in the Washington D.C. offices of Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Jones Day. While practicing in the district, Caroline also served as an adjunct professor in the Supreme Court Clinic of the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Caroline now resides near Chicago with her husband Steven, who is also an attorney, and their two sons.

Related Matters

  • Represented Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in nationwide litigation involving thousands of state and federal lawsuits alleging a connection between the herbicide Paraquat and dementia.

  • Won swift dismissal of FMLA class action against client CSX Railway Corp. before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.

  • Obtained a decision affirming summary judgment in favor of clients U-Haul International, Inc. and Amerco Real Estate Co. in an appeal before the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division regarding New Jersey Spill Act claims.

  • Secured an en banc victory for a former state Governor in an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit implicating First Amendment issues.

  • Obtained a preliminary injunction of the District of Columbia’s unconstitutional worship restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic on behalf of the Archdiocese of Washington in a suit brought before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Shortly thereafter the District agreed to rescind its illegal restrictions and reached a favorable settlement with the Archdiocese on all remaining claims.

  • Represented multiple high-level Executive Branch officials in their individual capacities in federal lawsuits raising novel constitutional questions.

  • Represented employees of the state of Minnesota court system as amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of the United States in a First Amendment case regarding compulsory public sector union fees. Drafted amicus brief that was relied on by the Court in its opinion. See Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2467 & n.5 (2018).

  • Represented a bipartisan group of 144 Members of Congress as amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of the United States in a landmark First Amendment case regarding the free speech clause.

  • Represented the state of Kansas as a petitioner for certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States in an appeal regarding the interpretation of Medicare’s Choice-of-Provider provision.

  • Represented Center for Consumer Freedom as amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of the United States in two original actions involving the extraterritorial scope of California agricultural regulations.

  • Represented the state of Utah as a petitioner for certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States in an appeal involving the tribal remedies exhaustion doctrine.

  • Appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to represent indigent prisoner in habeas appeal raising multiple complex issues of statutory interpretation involving the Armed Criminal Career Act and the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2253.