HLLI filed suit on behalf of Doctors Michael Couris and Michael Fitzgibbons challenging a California state law that restricts doctors’ First Amendment free speech rights by threatening disciplinary action against their license for discussing with patients anything about COVID-19 that the State views as “misinformation.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – Over a dozen advocacy groups and individuals filed amicus briefs in Greenberg v. Lehocky, Appellate Case No. 22-1733 (3rd. Cir.), Pennsylvania’s attempt to overrule HLLI’s victory enjoining the state’s unconstitutional regulation of attorney speech, Rule 8.4(g). HLLI challenged Rule 8.4(g) on behalf of attorney Zachary Greenberg, a Pennsylvania-licensed attorney working for a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of students’ constitutional rights and regularly speaks at legal…
"The First Amendment does not permit state licensing authorities to dictate what viewpoints its members may express on a wide range of academic, social, legal, cultural and political issues," said HLLI Senior Attorney Adam Schulman. "Pennsylvania may not condition Zach's right to pursue his professional calling on him sacrificing participation in the free marketplace of ideas."
An HLLI amicus brief on behalf of Concerned Women for America and Women's Liberation Front details how single-sex sports are necessary to provide equal opportunities for and treatment of women and Title IX is specifically intended to achieve this goal.
Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute represents an objector challenging the fairness of a settlement that pays $1.4 million to the class and over $4 million to the attorneys.
HLLI successfully represented an objector to a class action settlement where requested attorneys’ fees and expenses equaled to more than 33% of the settlement fund. Worse, the primary settlement relief is fraud insurance services for events that occurred 3-6 years ago, offered to a class where over 90% of the members already have had related services made available to them in other data breach settlements.
Theodore H. Frank filed an objection to coupon settlement that will provide $5 vouchers to class members who allegedly purchased sunscreens with excessive carcinogenic benzene, while providing attorneys with $2.6 million in fees that defendants have agreed not to oppose.
HLLI filed suit on behalf of a pharmacist who challenges a new Missouri law that would prevent pharmacists in the state from communicating with physicians or patients to dispute the effectiveness of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine for human use as a COVID-19 treatment.
HLLI, joining with the Cato Institute, filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant review of a case where the lower court would compel a web designer to create sites conveying messages that she opposes, and did so by creating a troubling “monopoly” rationale that has no support in First Amendment law or reality.
HLLI submitted a comment letter requesting that the SEC withdraw its proposed rule on climate-related disclosures for investors as a dramatic overreach of the SEC’s authority and mission to protect investors.
