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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.

Some Thoughts on the Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett

By: Margaret A. Little October 2, 2020
Peggy Little
  So, we have a nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, and, as with all such nominations, the prognosticators, pundits, and public want to know how this candidate will approach the issues they believe the Supreme Court is most likely to hear in coming years. Misinformation abounds. The cognoscenti know that abortion will…
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Ray Lucia’s Mythic Lift

By: Margaret A. Little June 19, 2020
Peggy Little
Ten years ago, Ray Lucia was a successful San Diego-based financial advisor who through in-person seminars, webinars, books, radio and TV appearances promoted an uncontroversial and academically recognized method of savings for retirement. His “buckets of money” strategy encouraged dividing and diversifying savings among safer to riskier “buckets” and then spending in retirement from the…
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Oh Wisconsin! It’s time for legislators to do their jobs

By: Margaret A. Little May 18, 2020
Peggy Littlecategory_listCovid-19 Articles
“When the tyrant first appears, he is a protector.” Plato, The Republic On March 24, 2020, Wisconsin’s Interim Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm issued a stunningly broad order taking control of the lives and activities of every single individual and business in the State of Wisconsin under rules and conditions that she herself determined and…
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