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Kaitlyn Schiraldi

Staff Attorney


Kaitlyn Schiraldi is Staff Attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Prior to joining NCLA, Kaitlyn worked at Mountain States Legal Foundation where she litigated to defend citizens from the government’s unwieldy power, filed amicus briefs, drafted comments on agency regulations, and was a frequent webinar panelist.

Kaitlyn graduated magna cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law and holds an undergraduate degree, with honors, from The University of Texas at Austin.

Kaitlyn is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and resides outside of Nashville. She previously served on the Nashville Federalist Society’s Young Lawyers Committee, helping plan local events where the brightest legal minds come speak. In her downtime, you can find her spending time with her husband and infant daughter, searching for antique treasures, listening to live music, or pretending to be a coffee sommelier.   

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in Tennessee and select federal jurisdictions.

Climbing the Ladder of Statutory Interpretation: Why Skipping Rungs Collapses the Structure of the Statute

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi October 15, 2025
Blogs
Courts are in the business of saying what the law is, not what the law should be. Congress is in charge of writing statutes that are understandable and don’t leave holes where agencies—or courts—decide to put their creative touch on the wording. But Congress is not perfect, and statutes get passed that look like a…
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Institutional Review Boards: A University-Prescribed Chokehold on the First Amendment

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi July 7, 2025
Blogs
First Amendment violations are not always as blatant as the government colluding with social media companies to shut down unpopular speech or forcing students to remove armbands signaling their aversion to the Vietnam War. Some free speech violations lurk behind ivy-covered walls. In one of the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s latest cases, Issak v. University…
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Our Agencies Are Failing Us: Why A Mother’s Discernment Cannot Be Replaced by Fallible Agencies

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi February 12, 2025
Blogs
American citizens should not allow federal agencies to replace their own discernment and instinct by blindly believing that regulations reduce risk—the government will never be a benevolent parens patriae. Skepticism of the government is a natural result of being in the public interest legal profession, but entering motherhood heightened this distrust. The sanctity of protecting…
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