Kyle H. Keraga
Kyle’s judicial experience touches all aspects of federal practice—including litigation in federal district court and appellate proceedings in two Federal Circuits. Before joining Venable, he clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Judge Richard D. Bennett of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. His district court judge routinely sat by designation with the Ninth Circuit, attending eight weeks of oral argument and assuming primary writing responsibility for 45 appellate cases.
Kyle graduated at the top of his class from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law with multiple honors and awards. There, he spent a full year interning in state and federal courts to sharpen his writing and gain real-world judicial experience. He competed on the National Moot Court Team and reached the finals of two intramural tournaments, earning recognition for his written and oral advocacy. He has also published constitutional scholarship focused on partisan gerrymandering and political participatory rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Related Practices
Experience
Representative Matters
- Drafted a Supreme Court amicus brief supporting the respondent in FCC v. Consumers Research, presenting comprehensive constitutional arguments in favor of a more robust approach to the private nondelegation doctrine
- Coauthored a Supreme Court amicus brief supporting the petitioner in Barnes v. Felix, arguing that the Fourth Amendment excessive force inquiry should not be confined to the "moment of the threat”
- Coauthored merits briefs in a Fourth Circuit appeal addressing liability of alternative business lenders for facilitating high-profile multi-million-dollar fraud
- Drafted an amicus brief in the First Circuit, defending against a dormant Commerce Clause challenge, a Massachusetts statute prohibiting the sale of meat derived from livestock raised using gestation crates and other intensive confinement methods
- Coauthored the complaint and preliminary injunction brief in a district court case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s unilateral termination of a congressionally authorized multi-billion-dollar grant program supporting energy efficiency and green energy projects
- Drafted an amicus brief on behalf of an international payments industry council, challenging a state-law interchange fee prohibition that would undermine the international payment processing system
- Assisted with dispositive motions practice and argument preparations in a case addressing the constitutionality of agency adjudications under the Seventh Amendment, Article III, the Take Care Clause, and related constitutional provisions
Insights
Credentials
Education
- J.D. summa cum laude University of Maryland School of Law 2021
- Order of the Coif
- Order of the Barristers
- William Strobel Thomas Prize for Highest Academic Achievement
- Sam Allen Memorial Prize for Excellence in Leadership and Scholarship
- Joseph Bernstein Award for Most Significant Student Publication
- Member, Editorial Board, Maryland Law Review
- Moot Court National Team
- Moot Court Board
- Moot Court Myerowitz Competition Chair
- B.S. Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2015
- 149th Grand Marshal, Rensselaer Student Union
- Phalanx Leadership Honor Society
Bar Admissions
- Maryland
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Clerk Experience
- The Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- The Honorable Richard D. Bennett U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland