Latest Developments

Watch Jeff Clements Speak at the 31st Annual Jefferson B. Fordham Debate

Free Speech For People co-founder, Jeff Clements joined Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law at Boston College, for a debate moderated by Professor Schwartz at the University of Utah. The debate, hosted by University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, addressed the issue of corporate personhood. Watch the full debate Click here
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Will the Supreme Court save industry’s bacon? Ron Fein Explains via The Hill

The First Amendment protects freedom of speech, “however, some judges use it as a bludgeon to strike down common-sense disclosure rules” exlains our legal director, Ron Fein to The Hill. Disclosures that would benefit workers, investors, and customers, are often ruled against to protect the purported First Amendment rights of businesses and corporations. This summer,
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Sen. Goldwater Would Have Hated ‘Citizens United’ According to Ron Fein in the Washington Post

Last month, Post columnist George F. Will quoted Barry Goldwater in the opening lines of his piece, arguing that the Citizens United decision protects Americans’ First Amendment rights. Today in the Washington Post, our legal director, Ron Fein revists Goldwater’s record, and explains the unlimited political spending by business corporations is exactly what Goldwater didn’t
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‘Living wage’ Laws Unconstitutional: If You Ask Lobbyists, Explains Ron Fein to Reuters

(Image via David Ryder, Reuters) Last week, Free Speech For People filed an amicus brief in IFA v. Seattle, in defense of Seattle’s new ‘living wage’ law, now under fire from the International Franchise Associations, the National Restaurant Association, and other industry trade groups. Our legal director, Ron Fein explains today on Reuters. The piece begins: Industry trade groups are now
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FSFP FILES AN AMICUS BRIEF IN IFA V. SEATTLE

MINIMUM WAGE UNDER FIRE IN SEATTLELegal Advocacy Group Says Workers’ Rights Are At Stake SEATTLE, WA — Free Speech For People, a national non-profit legal advocacy and public education organization, is joining the defense of Seattle’s new “living wage” law, now under fire from the International Franchise Association, the National Restaurant Association, and other industry
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Expand Free Speech by Limiting Political Money

Jessica Levinson, professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles recently shared an op-ed with the Sacramento Bee on the history of California’s Political Reform Act and what it means today, nearly 40 years later. Levinson writes: “Californians took a leap of faith 40 years ago and sought to revolutionize elections and politics. In 1974, by a
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Why Every Single Supreme Court Justice Got Hobby Lobby Wrong

Ron Fein, Free Speech For People’s legal director, appears on Jurist today as a guest columnist. In his latest piece, Fein explains, “The Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Hobby Lobby made a serious mistake about the nature of corporate religious claims. But so did the dissent.”
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Will Montana Judges be for Sale?

Retired Montana Supreme Court Justice and Free Speech For People legal advisory committee member, James Nelson writes to the Independent Record on whether or not Montana’s court and judges will be forced “onto the auction block.” Nelson writes of the role of money in politics in a post-Citizens United era, and explains “there is no reason to believe it won’t happen in Montana’s upcoming elections for judges and justices.”
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