An Activist Law Firm
An Activist Law Firm
Shawn McBreairty was temporarily banned from attending RSU22 School Committee meetings and from attending any RSU22 school related meeting or function in-person and online for his “blatant” and repeated failure to comply with reasonable RSU22 policies regarding meeting attendance.
Shawn McBreairty is an educational advocate and journalist who resides in Hampden, Maine.
Marc Randazza represented Cybernet Entertainment, LLC (now known as kink.com) in a proceeding over the trademark “FuckingMachines” before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). T
Kent Wu is the President of LVCNN, a Las Vegas newspaper reporting on issues of interest to the local Chinese community. He was sued in Clark County District Court for defamation and related claims by Daniel Wang a/k/a Wang Jianping, a well-known figure in the community and former president of the Taiwan Benevolent Association of Las Vegas, over an article LVCNN published regarding public allegations a woman made about Wang sexually abusing her and treating her as a sex slave.
In March 2025, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society filed a lawsuit against Toni Marek to block the publication of her book exposing sexual assault, retaliation, and misconduct. The case centers on censorship, prior restraint, and the use of legal power to silence whistleblowers and survivors of sexual assault. PTK claimed that Marek had received their “privileged” information, but every document she possessed came from public records.
In the murder trial of Karen Read, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts didn’t just try the defendant—they tried the First Amendment, too. With the blessing of the Superior Court, the state imposed a sweeping “buffer zone” around the Dedham courthouse, banning anyone from displaying signs, using sound equipment, or expressing a viewpoint about the trial within 200 feet of the building.
Laurel Libby is a Maine elected representative. She spoke out on a matter of public concern — trans athletes in girls’ sports. We take no position on that, as we take cases both protecting transsexual rights as well as the right to speak out against over-reaching “trans supremacy” as it could be called.
For First Amendment enthusiasts, Professor Eugene Volokh likely does not require an introduction, but doing so adds to the irony of a recent court order that purported to require him, a non-party to the case, to delete or take down articles reporting on a Florida property case. Professor Volokh is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a UCLA School of Law emeritus law professor. He frequently provides legal and political commentary for The Volokh Conspiracy, including discussions of First Amendment issues.
In 2012, citizen journalist Alexandria Goddard wrote a series of blog posts discussing a rape that took place in Steubenville, Ohio. In addition to writing about the high school football players who were charged and later convicted of the rape of a 16-year-old female classmate, Goddard also discussed the social media posts of another football player, Cody Saltsman.
Brewer, Maine: A group of students circulated a petition pertaining to bathroom policies at Brewer High School. The school shut down the petition, threatening the students with discipline if they continued circulating it. The students also report that they were threatened that the petition was a “hate crime.” (The school denies this). Shawn McBreairty is a journalist who wrote about the story, and included a photograph that was widely circulating on social media.
The Daily Caller was a defendant in a defamation claim, and Randazza Legal Group successfully defended the publication, securing an early dismissal with prejudice.
