January 2, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Rachel Gelbmann, 850.224.4555 rachel@floridafaf.org [VIEW THE PDF VERSION] The First Amendment Foundation’s 2017 Sunshine Awards recognize those who have made significant contributions to furthering open government through service, litigation, and reporting. In addition to the Pete Weitzel/Friend of the First Amendment Award and the James C. Adkins/Sunshine Litigation […]
This ‘Tenacious Underdog’ Won His First Supreme Court Case. Now He’s Back.
New York Times by Adam Liptak December 4, 2017 About a decade ago, the leaders of a Florida city held a closed-door meeting to discuss how to intimidate and silence a critic named Fane Lozman. So far, their plan has not worked. Mr. Lozman calls himself “a persistent and tenacious underdog,” which may be an […]
First the city sank his house. Now, he’s at the Supreme Court over free speech case
Miami Herald by Monique O. Madan November 13, 2017 Nearly five years ago, Fane Lozman won a landmark case in the Supreme Court when the justices ruled that his houseboat was not a boat, but his floating home, and that a Palm Beach County city wrongly seized and destroyed it by using maritime laws. On […]
