FEF Fundraiser And Update Published In American Free Press
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)
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)
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…
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.
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…
By Glen Allen, Esq., FEF President In December 2023, I posted an article on the FEF website commemorating Bill of Rights Day. Also in December 2023, FEF hosted in Baltimore its first Free Expression Foundation Bill of Rights Day event. It will soon be time for the second Free Expression Foundation Bill of Rights Day event – on December, 14, …
On October 8, 2019, FEF filed an amicus brief in the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Rise Above Movement defendants who had been prosecuted under the Anti-Riot Act for their participation in the Charlottesville, Virginia, Unite the Right Rally. At the trial court, the defendants, under intense pressure and in difficult prison conditions, had agreed…
In October 2018, following national publicity generated from Propublica articles, four members of the Rise Above Movement (“RAM”) who had attended the Charlottesville demonstrations in August 2017 were arrested by federal authorities in California. These young men were charged with conspiracy to riot under 18 U.S.C. 371 and travel with intent to riot under 18 U.S.C. 2101, felonies that carry…