On June 17, 2020, FEF filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the United States v. Rundo, et al. appeal. With the filing of this amicus, FEF now has filed amicus briefs in Rise Above Movement appeals on both coasts of the USA – on the East Coast, in the Fourth Circuit Miselis case, and…
In the May 25, 2020 edition of American Free Press, Merlin Miller FEF board member, summarizes FEF’s achievements and plans for the future. See the article here.
On May 11, 2020, Glen Allen, responding to the SPLC’s brief in opposition to his opening brief, filed his reply brief in further support of his appeal. In his reply brief, Allen castigated the SPLC Defendants for improperly citing matters outside the appellate record in their opposition brief by seeking to introduce newspaper articles and articles written by the SPLC…
Jacob Goodwin attended the Charlottesville demonstrations as a pro-monument demonstrator. At some point in the melee, Goodwin, along with other persons, kicked a counterprotester several times. He should not have done this. But the sentence he received after a subsequent prosecution – eight years in prison in Virginia – was grossly disproportionate, given that the counterprotester’s injuries from the kicks…
On February 14, 2020, Glen Allen, who has received financial aid from FEF, filed his initial brief in his appeal from Judge Blake’s dismissal of his complaint against Heidi Beirich, Mark Potok, and the SPLC. Allen presented a number of arguments for reversal of the district court’s decision. Included among them were that: the court failed properly to take into…
On January 31, 2020, Glen Allen, as an observer, on behalf of FEF attended oral argument in the Fourth Circuit Miselis appeal. He noted that the Chief Judge, Judge King, seemed hostile to the RAM defendants, that Judge Rushing asked virtually no questions, but that Judge Diaz did pose several pointed questions to both sides. He commented that it was…
Although amicus curiae parties are rarely permitted to file two amicus briefs in an appeal, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has accorded FEF this unusual distinction. On January 9, 2020, the Fourth Circuit allowed FEF to file a second amicus brief – FEF’s reply amicus brief – in the United States v. Miselis Rise Above Movement appeal. In its…
On December 10, 2019, Glen Allen filed a timely notice of appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals from the Maryland District Court’s dismissal of his complaint against the SPLC and two of its officers, Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok.
On November 13, 2019, Judge Katherine Blake dismissed Glen Allen’s complaint against Heidi Beirich and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Allen had filed his complaint in the federal court in December 2018., alleging nine counts, including claims under the Racketeer and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) statute and common law claims for tortious interference and defamation. After the SPLC defendants moved to…
On November 11, 2019, Charles Randy Sheppard, FEF Board Member, published in the American Free Press an update on FEF’s progress (article can be viewed here)
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