[5] As of 2011[update], Nesson was currently "interested in advancing justice in Jamaica, the evolution of the Internet, as well as [the United States'] national drug policy.

[5] He is rumored to have achieved the highest grade point average since Felix Frankfurter (later a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States) graduated in 1907.

[7] Nesson was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II, 1965 term.

He then worked as a special assistant in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under John Doar.

Many of Nesson's less conventional actions during the case, including an "almost obsessive desire for transparency and documentation", drew criticism.

[15] As of 2015[update], Nesson was pro bono counsel to the Westmoreland Hemp & Ganja Farmers Association in Jamaica.