Free Speech For People and Public Good Law Center File Amicus Brief in Support of Vermont Consumers’ Right to Know What’s in Their Food Posted on September 1, 2015 (October 2, 2018) On Monday, Free Speech For People and the Public Good Law Center filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, defending a Vermont law (Act 120) that requires food sold in Vermont and produced with genetic engineering to be labeled “produced with genetic engineering.”Read More
Marriage Equality and Corporate Litigation Posted on June 25, 2015 (October 1, 2018) In a new post on The Hill, Legal Director Ron Fein and summer legal intern Danny Gifford explain how developing corporate legal strategy is hijacking the hard-won precedent protecting the LGBTQ community. Read More
FSFP Files Amicus Brief In HJTA v. Bowen, A California Case On A Measure To Overturn Citizens United Posted on February 2, 2015 (August 26, 2015) Democracy Amendments Free Speech For People filed an amicus brief before the California Supreme Court in defense of California Proposition 49, also known as the Overturn Citizens United Act. Read More
FSFP Filed An Amicus Brief in Grocery Manufacturers Association, et. al. v. William H. Sorrell, Attorney General Posted on November 14, 2014 (September 17, 2020) Corporate Abuse of Power Free Speech For People has filed an amicus brief before the federal district court in Vermont in defense of Vermont’s recently-passed law requiring the labeling of food produced with genetic engineering. The law requires food sold in Vermont that was produced with genetic engineering to be labeled “produced with genetic engineering.” Major agribusiness and industrialRead More
Crony capitalism alive with Ex-Im Bank Posted on August 14, 2014 (August 27, 2014) Ron Fein and Tom Bacon of Free Speech For People take on “crony capitalism” in a new op-ed published today in The Hill. In Congress, a fight continues over whether to renew the charter of the Export/Import Bank, which Fein describes as, “an obscure government agency that supports the purchase of American products overseas with taxpayer-backedRead More