"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."
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.
HLLI submitted a comment letter asking the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration to withdraw its proposed rule revising 29 CFR § 2550.404a-1, Investment Duties.
The mayor of Washington D.C. announced today that she is lifting her ban on dancing at weddings. The announcement comes a week after a D.C.-area bride, Margaret Appleby, sued over the ban with the help of attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center and Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (May 9, 2021) – Monday morning, the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, in a joint effort with the Liberty Justice Center, filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Washington DC bride-to-be, Margaret Appleby, challenging DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s recent executive order banning wedding dancing. In the 1984 Kevin Bacon classic, Footloose, a puritanical minister played by John Lithgow persuaded the town counsel of fictional Bomont to ban…
Late Monday night, the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed objections on behalf of a group of Flint residents challenging an excessive $202 million fee request from a partial $641 million settlement of the Flint water crisis.
Today, Pennsylvania enforcement officials abandoned their appeal from a district court decision enjoining them from enforcing a state rule that infringed the free speech rights of Pennsylvania attorneys.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – A federal court based in Philadelphia today preliminarily enjoined enforcement of a Rule of Professional Conduct aimed at disciplining attorneys for their speech. 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 education and other professional events on a variety of hot-button legal…
Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute (HLLI) announced today the departure of president & general counsel Melissa A. Holyoak, who is leaving to serve as Utah Solicitor General. Holyoak co-founded HLLI with Theodore H. Frank in 2019. HLLI also announced that Anna St. John will serve as its next president.
“This decision simply delays the day of reckoning for this unfair practice,” said Ted Frank, Director of Litigation and Senior Attorney at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute.
