

Martinez has persuaded the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in six cases. In the 2020 Term, he was part of teams successfully representing Facebook and the Government of Guam in unanimous Supreme Court victories under the TCPA and Comprehensive Environmental, Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) statutes. American Association of Political Consultants, persuading the Supreme Court to invalidate a portion of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) under the First Amendment. He also argued for respondents in Barr v. Wilkie, an important case in which the Supreme Court clarified the rules for federal-sector employer liability under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

Martinez argued and prevailed 8-1 in Babb v. He has filed more than 75 briefs in the Supreme Court involving a wide range of legal issues, including trademark, tax, securities, intellectual property, criminal, environmental, education, civil rights, and First Amendment law. Martinez has personally argued nine cases in the Supreme Court, including important cases in the fields of the First Amendment, patent law, criminal law, civil rights, employment, and civil and criminal procedure. In that role, he represented the United States in litigation before the Supreme Court and advised the Solicitor General on the government’s appellate litigation throughout the country. In 2016, he rejoined Latham after serving as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the US Department of Justice. Martinez’s practice encompasses civil and criminal matters spanning virtually all areas of law. Martinez has handled civil and criminal matters involving a wide range of constitutional, statutory, and administrative law issues, and he has argued cases in the US Supreme Court and the D.C., Second, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, and Federal Circuits, and the New York, California, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee appellate courts, among others. As a member of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice, he focuses primarily on appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals, and state appellate courts. Roman Martinez is the Deputy Office Managing Partner in the Washington, D.C.

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