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VICTORY: Eighth Circuit Revives Fourth Amendment Challenge to Suspicionless...
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View ArticleHistoric Victory in Government Transparency Campaign
The Freedom Center of Missouri and client, Aaron Malin, are now four-for-four winning trial court judgments that various government entities are obligated to comply with the state’s Sunshine Law. The...
View ArticleCongratulations, You Won! Now Pay Up.
On paper, Missouri’s Sunshine Law offers hope that if a citizen can prove in court that the government unlawfully denied a citizen’s access to public records or a public meeting, the citizen might...
View ArticleRon Calzone Explains Our Citizen Activist Speech Case
In the above video, Ron Calzone explains in his own words the basis and critical importance of our Citizen Activist Free Speech case. This case involves a Missouri statute that requires citizen...
View ArticleBriefing Completed in Cutting Edge First Amendment Case
On December 21, 2017, the Freedom Center of Missouri and our co-counsel at the Institute for Free Speech filed our final brief on behalf of Ron Calzone in our Citizen Activist Speech case. The Eighth...
View ArticleSometimes Victory Means Avoiding Litigation
The Freedom Center’s primary goal is to help shape our legal landscape by winning victories in the courtroom. But sometimes we can score victories without ever needing to file a lawsuit. We have a...
View ArticlePublic Officials, Social Media, Transparency, and the First Amendment
The past few decades have seen the development of technologies that raise challenging new questions about citizens’ rights under open records laws, open meetings laws, and the First Amendment. Several...
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BLOOMING RIDICULOUS: Federal Judge Rules Property Rights Not “Fundamental,”...
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VICTORY: Court Rules Sheriff May Not Withhold Documents, But Shortchanges...
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View ArticleLittle Pink House
A decade and a half ago a courageous woman, Susette Kelo, waged a desperate battle to save her neighborhood from a city’s effort to condemn the neighborhood’s homes and business and to hand those...
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A Long Time Coming
In the fall of 2009, more than one year before Dave and Jenifer Roland founded the Freedom Center of Missouri, an African-style hair braider named Salimato Kouyate contacted Dave to ask for help. The...
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VICTORY: Circuit Judge Rules St. Louis City Officials Violated Sunshine Law
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View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Court of Appeals Rules Task Force “Substantially Complied”...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2018 CONTACT: Dave Roland Mexico, Missouri—In an unpublished opinion filed on September 11, 2018, in Malin v. MUSTANG, a panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals...
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Freedom Center’s Director of Litigation on Front Page of Time Magazine
A couple of months ago Dave Roland, the Freedom Center of Missouri’s director of litigation, was invited to take part in a special project by Time Magazine. French photographic artist JR would take...
View ArticleVolunteers Are Lobbyists, Rules Eighth Circuit: Sharply Divided Panel Deals...
Mexico, MO – Today, an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled, 2-1, that unpaid citizen activists can be forced to comply with the same registration, reporting, and disclosure requirements as...
View ArticleSt. Louis City Forces Good Samaritans to Appear in Court, Unceremoniously...
On October 31, an officer of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department gave citations to Ray Redlich and Chris Ohnimus. Their alleged offense? Giving sandwiches to the homeless. The citations...
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VICTORY: St. Louis County Drug Task Force Admits Violating Sunshine Law
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View ArticleFreedom Center Challenges St. Louis City’s Brazen Defiance of Transparency
Tragedy struck Darla Nieder in October 2017 when her daughter fell victim to a double-murder in St. Louis City. In February 2018, desperate to learn whatever she could about her child’s death, Nieder...
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Eighth Circuit Refuses to Address Constitutionality of Turf Grass Mandate
BLOOMING RIDICULOUS: Eighth Circuit Refuses to Address Constitutionality of City Ordinance Forcing Widow with Grass Allergy to Grow Turf Grass A custom-made flag flies over Janice Duffner’s home....
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Eighth Circuit: Farmers Surrender Fourth Amendment Rights When Driving Their...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Dave Roland July 26, 2019 (573)...
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