FIRST AMENDMENT & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWYERS
Our Focus
Our primary focus is high-stakes First Amendment and civil liberties litigation, upholding and defending the Constitution against all enemies. We also provide a full spectrum of business litigation, intellectual property, media law, and business law advice. Our intellectual property work is both domestic and international, and we particularly focus on the confluence of intellectual property rights and freedom of expression rights.
Core Values
We will not cause harm to the First Amendment, nor through inaction allow harm to come to the First Amendment. We work to uphold and defend freedom of expression and the core values that the First Amendment protects. We uphold civil liberties in the United States and abroad, working with international partners and through our strategic alliances with other firms, world wide, to promote the cause of liberty.
What we're made of
About uS
RANDAZZA LEGAL GROUP is a team of attorneys committed to protecting freedom of expression and the five freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment.
We handle constitutional issues, nationwide, and are well known for our willingness to take the hardest cases, including cases that appear unwinnable to other firms.
We went up against the government because they were trying to censor a guy who protested in favor of LGBTQ rights. Then, we used the same underlying briefing to support a woman who protested against Pride Month. We are Catholics who assist pro-abortion protesters and Satanists. We are Jews who fight for Nazis’ free speech rights. We are gays who fight for people who want to end marriage equality. We find the greatest purity in supporting speech we despise, because that is what freedom is about.
Most of our cases are high profile, and we do not shy away from taking on the government, large corporations, large law firms, or billionaires who try to suppress freedom of expression.
We fear nobody.
We also work with clients globally on freedom of expression issues. We are committed to a maximization of civil liberties everywhere. To the extent we can export liberty, we do it.
We have provided legal support to Chinese dissident journalists, as they risked their lives by smuggling information out of China. We represented an Argentine dissident journalist, when Argentina was under the fist of authoritarian suppression. We represented a Rwandan dissident, facing extradition and execution for his speech against the government there.
While our civil liberties practice is the firm’s soul, we are not narrowly focused on our abilities.
We represent clients on copyright and trademark issues, trade secrets, business litigation, defamation cases, domain name disputes, and employment law matters. Ronald Green largely invented domain name practice in Nevada, and if you see a domain name proceeding in that state, chances are it was plagiarized from his work.
Our intellectual property practice spans the globe. Marc Randazza has a degree in International Intellectual Property law from the University of Turin, where he wrote his thesis on the confluence of international freedom of expression and intellectual property law. He teaches a course on this subject annually in Turin.
The firm has alliances with lawyers in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, The Netherlands, and The United Kingdom.
If we do not have a direct relationship with a lawyer in a country where you require assistance, we are certainly no more than one degree of separation from one.
Lawsuit - Worthley
Jeff Worthley filed a lawsuit against the School Committee of Gloucester and Superintendent Ben Lummis in Massachusetts Superior Court. However, the case was moved to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Worthley made four allegations in the lawsuit. The first two were based on violations of the First Amendment and Due Process under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, while the other two claims were based on violations of Free Speech and Due Process under G.L. c. 12, § 11.
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