Buck Dougherty is Counsel at Siri & Glimstad LLP and is a member of the vaccine policy team where he focuses his efforts on preserving medical freedom and safeguarding civil rights against government overreach.

He has litigated various civil rights cases, including successful challenges to vaccine mandates by health agencies and the federal government. He has practiced before the United States Supreme Court and various state and federal courts across the country, including presenting oral argument before the Sixth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, Mississippi Supreme Court, and Tennessee Court of Appeals.

In 2020, America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators selected Buck as one of its top litigators in Tennessee. He has also been selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star.

Buck has made several national media appearances related to his cases, including on NBC Nightly News, TODAY Show, Newsmax, Outkick, radio podcasts, and in print media. He has written opinion pieces on legal topics that have been published by news organizations such as The Daily Caller.

Buck holds a B.S. from the University of Tampa, where he was a member of the 1987 NCAA Div. II Final Four soccer team. He earned his J.D. from Samford University, Cumberland School of Law, where he was selected to The Order of Barristers, a national honor society for law school graduates who demonstrate exceptional skill in trial advocacy, oral advocacy, and brief writing.

Before joining Siri & Glimstad, he was a litigator in a national public interest organization, and he has been in private practice at various law firms as an associate and partner, including an Am Law 100 firm.

Representative matters include:

• Obtaining the first nationwide stay of the OSHA vaccine mandate on behalf of a private employer that affected over 80 million Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually upheld the nationwide stay, stopping the federal government from forcing large employers to require that their employees take the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment.
• Successfully litigated before the Mississippi Supreme Court the right of an association of 125 private and religious schools to access $10 million in federal COVID emergency relief funds.
• Successfully represented private businesses in litigation against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop the government’s COVID-19 mask mandate upon the meat industry.
• Successfully submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark First Amendment case prohibiting states from forcing a website designer to create designs and messages with which the designer disagrees.
• Successfully submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in a civil rights case involving a 94-year-old grandmother’s right to keep excess proceeds from the sale of her home by the local county.