From 2015-2018, First Amendment Attorney Marc Randazza published an opinion column for CNN, regularly providing commentary and analysis on current events and cases related to free speech, Trademark and Copyright, freedom of the press, defamation and much more. See below for the articles Marc Randazza wrote for CNN during this...
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Dennis Hof, a former client and friend of Randazza Legal Group. Dennis was a true warrior for freedom and liberty, taking on causes that provided him little benefit but had significant First Amendment implications. There was much more to him...
Marc Randazza’s most recent CNN column analyzes the recent conviction of Code Pink Protestor Desiree Fairooz after the media suggested she had been arrested merely for, "laughing at Jeff Sessions" during a Congressional hearing. There is, of course, more to the story. See - Jail for laughing protester is an outrage When Fairooz...
See Dear Berekely: Even Ann Coulter deserves free speech There has been a wave of violent outbursts against conservative speakers during the 2016 election season, including violent protestors at Berkeley driving Milo Yiannopolous off campus a few months ago. Berekley’s reaction? When the Berkeley College Republicans invited Coulter to speak, Berkeley canceled...
Randazza Legal Group is proud to sponsor Spring Valley High School Football. When they approached us to sponsor them, of course we said “yes.” When they told us that we got to put whatever we wanted on the back of the shirt, we saw it as a great opportunity to...
In Marc Randazza’s latest First Amendment victory, he once again fended off censorship in favor of wide open debate. In this appellate victory, the 11th Circuit Court of appeals upheld an earlier anti-SLAPP win, and a lower court decision that held that a plaintiff could not use a bogus “false...
by Jay Marshall Wolman, CIPP/US By now, practically everyone who cares has heard that Magistrate Pym has ordered Apple to help the FBI crack open an iPhone related to the San Bernadino shooting. The order is pursuant to the All Writs Act, codified at 28 U.S.C. sec. 1651. In short, it is...
by Jay Marshall Wolman My recent post on the Ninth Amendment got me thinking about Griswold v. Connecticut, and its progeny, including Lawrence v. Texas. Although the latter explicitly stated it wasn't ruling on prostitution, it didn't say it wasn't protected. Assuming a logical thread from Griswold, the case law is that, basically, whatever two consenting...
by Jay Marshall Wolman As an employment lawyer who works for a 1st Amendment firm, I try to keep up with developments in both areas. Sometimes, they overlap, as they did in my Twitter feed recently. (Blatant self-promotion, feel free to follow me @wolmanj ). In Trusz v.UBS Realty Investors, LLC, the Connecticut...
You remember that episode, where Michael Scott declares bankruptcy? [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuGIgf-ICHM] Keep that in mind for this lesson, kids. This happens to all of us, from time to time. A lawyer sends you a letter with some threatening language on it that he thinks accomplishes his goal of making it...
