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Margaret A. Little

Senior Litigation Counsel


Peggy Little, Senior Counsel, comes to NCLA with over three decades of experience as a trial and appellate litigator in complex, high-stakes regulatory, mass-tort, class-action, products liability, securities, commercial and civil rights litigation representing individuals and high-profile litigants including Fortune 50 companies, financial institutions, public companies, and universities in state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.

Peggy is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Potter Stewart Prize. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to starting her own trial and appellate law firm in 1997, where she was appellate consulting counsel to the New Haven firefighters in Ricci v.DeStefano, a landmark 2009 United States Supreme Court decision, Peggy was a partner at Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2004 to early 2018, Peggy directed, part-time, the Federalist Society Pro Bono Center.

Peggy has participated in many national conferences and symposia addressing issues of current importance in constitutional law – specifically state and federal constitutional questions regarding the separation of powers and the first amendment – and regularly speaks, blogs and publishes on the topic of the unconstitutional exercise of governmental power. In May of 2017, she presented her paper, Pirates at the Parchment Gates, to a conference of state and federal judges at the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School. Her work has been published by law reviews, legal publications, the Federalist Society, the Wall Street Journal, Law and Liberty and the Manhattan Institute.

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in Connecticut, D.C., and select federal jurisdictions.

Debunking Debanking: How Government overregulation works in service of government oppression and woke cancel culture

By: Margaret A. Little September 16, 2025
Blogs
Debanking is the predictable and disturbing consequence of overregulation—the vastly expanded “know your customer” laws over the past 15 years—operating in service of a weaponized administrative state.  Bank regulators have the power to levy severe sanctions on private financial institutions if they don’t cancel those in conflict with the government—whether ideologically, politically, religiously or otherwise…
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Going the Distance—Of Masks, Plexiglas and Floor Dots: Our blighted prospects, faces and places

By: Margaret A. Little April 10, 2025
COVID-19 | FIve Years Page
The US response to Covid included mandated masking and social distancing imposed mostly by bureaucrats and public health officials shooting from the hip without any authorizing legislation or public hearings on the important questions of whether such measures would be efficacious and whether they would be worth the massive economic, social and human costs. Time…
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The Two Holdings of Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy and What They Mean for the Future of Administrative Adjudication

By: Margaret A. Little January 17, 2025
Blogs
Public commentary on the Supreme Court’s decision in SEC v. Jarkesy is an unusually stark litmus test of political and legal perspectives of the commentariat. Progressives sound a drumbeat of conspiracy, destruction, mayhem and even ruin against a lively background of originalists, libertarians, and conservatives shooting off fireworks and cannons or popping champagne to celebrate. …
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