Lawyer - Writer - Speaker - Consultant
Daniel J. Canon is a is a civil rights lawyer, teacher, writer, speaker, consultant, and activist based primarily in Indiana and Kentucky. Dan is consistently voted one of the region's top lawyers in the area of individual/constitutional rights. He has argued before the 6th and 7th circuit courts of appeals, the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and the Kentucky Supreme Court,and he is counsel of record on several published cases from those courts. He is currently available to discuss new cases involving criminal and civil appeals, employment discrimination, wrongful convictions, police abuse, inmates' rights, wrongful death, personal injury, business torts, and nonprofit oversight & management. He is also available for contract writing and public speaking engagements on a variety of topics, including CLE programs.
Dan is best known as lead counsel for the Kentucky plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges, counsel for the plaintiffs in the pioneering Kentucky and Indiana marriage equality cases of Bourke v. Beshear, Love v. Beshear, and Love v. Pence, counsel for Miller v. Davis, the highly publicized case in which plaintiffs were refused marriage licenses in Rowan County, Kentucky, and counsel for the protesters in Nwanguma v. Trump. He is also counsel in a number of high-profile civil and constitutional rights cases involving wrongful convictions, inmates' rights, abuse and overreach by law enforcement, and academic freedom.
Dan is also a professor of legal writing, civil procedure, and civil rights law at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, and an adjunct professor of criminal justice for the Indiana public college system. His writing has been featured in numerous publications, including The National Law Journal, Salon, Slate, Louisville's LEO Weekly, and Indianapolis's NUVO. He has been quoted and profiled extensively in Time, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Nightline, The New York Times, and many other national and international news sources. He is currently producing a series of short documentaries called Midwesticism, which profiles activists in Indiana and surrounding areas. His book about the American criminal justice system, entitled PLEADING OUT: How Backroom Deals Broke Our Justice System and What We Can Do to Fix It, is scheduled to be published by Basic/Hachette in early 2021.
Saeed & Little, LLP
#189-133 W. Market St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317.721.9214
Saeed & Little, LLP
#189-133 W. Market St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317.721.9214
dan [at] dancanonlaw [dot] com
No. 3:13-CV-00750-CRS, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4064 (W.D. Ky. Jan. 13, 2016)
273 F.Supp.3d 719 (W.D. Ky. 2017)
No. 18-1440 (7th Cir. 2019)
No. 3:15-cv-00093, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5307 (M.D. Tenn. Jan. 15, 2016)
No. 4:14-cv-00054-RLY-TAB, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18195 (S.D. Ind. Feb. 16, 2016)
123 F. Supp. 3d 924 (E.D. Ky. 2015)
192 L. Ed. 2d 609, 2015 U.S. LEXIS 4250, 83 U.S.L.W. 4592, 25 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 472 (U.S. 2015)
540 S.W.3d 803 (Ky. App. 2017)
No. 2016-CA-000717-MR (Ky. Ct. App. May 17, 2019)
No. 2011-CA-002247-MR, 2015 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 194 (Ct. App. Mar. 20, 2015)
No. 2013-CA-001881-MR, 2015 Ky. App. LEXIS 44 (Ct. App. Apr. 3, 2015)
No. 2011-CA-002110-MR, 2015 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 507 (Ct. App. July 17, 2015)
Nos. 2013-CA-001159-MR, 2013-CA-001461-MR, 2015 Ky. App. LEXIS 116 (Ct. App. Aug. 14, 2015)
996 F. Supp. 2d 542 (W.D. Ky. 2014)
989 F. Supp. 2d 536 (W.D. Ky. 2014)
2014 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 138 (Ky. Ct. App. Feb. 14, 2014)
395 S.W.3d 451 (Ky. 2013)
918 F. Supp. 2d 654 (W.D. Ky. 2013)
694 F.3d 650 (6th Cir. 2012)
2011 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 429 (Ky. Ct. App. May 20, 2011)
2010 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 394 (Ky. Ct. App. May 7, 2010)
2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67241 (W.D. Ky. Aug. 3, 2009)
ABA Journal (April 2020)
Above the Law (April 2020)
Bench & Bar (January 2020)
National Law Journal (December 2019)
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Fall 2019)
Salon (March 2018)
The Nation (March 2018)
Vice (January 2018)
Mic (August 2017)
Slate (April 2017)
The New York Times (Documentary) (February 2017)
LEO Weekly (February 2017)
LEO Weekly (December 2016)
Salon (November 2016)
LEO Weekly (November 2016)
Informavore Media (Documentary) (2016)
Insider Louisville (August 2014)
Insider Louisville (May 2014)
The Advocate (April/May 2014)
Insider Louisville (December 2013)
The Advocate (May/June 2013)
The Advocate (January/February 2013)
NBI CLE Blog (January 2013)
The Advocate (July/August 2011)
The Advocate (November/December 2009)
Saeed & Little, LLP
#189-133 W. Market St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317.721.9214