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VICTORY: Eighth Circuit Rules First Amendment Protects Citizen Activists’ Speech
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 1, 2019 CONTACT: Dave Roland, (314)604-6621 Eighth Circuit: First Amendment Protects Unpaid Activists Who Share Policy Ideas With Legislators Nearly three years ago...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Will Consider Whether to Review Suspicionless Stops Case
On June 3, 2013, Ron Calzone was driving his farm truck to gather gravel for his daughter’s chicken coop when a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer pulled him over. Had Calzone been speeding? Did he...
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Missouri Courts Must Uphold Citizens’ Right to Possess Firearms for Defensive...
In 2014, Missouri voters passed Amendment 5, which updated Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution, which protects “the right of every citizen to keep and bear arms, ammunition, and...
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Activist’s Family Sues Boone County to Obtain Records Related to His Death
P.O. Box 693 Mexico, Missouri www.mofreedom.org (314) 604-6621 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Dave Roland June 30, 2020...
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VICTORY: Boone County Produces Records, Pays Court Costs
P.O. Box 693 Mexico, Missouri www.mofreedom.org (314) 604-6621 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Dave RolandAugust 27, 2020...
View ArticleNEW CASE: Government Watchdog Sues City for Banning Her From City Hall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Dave Roland November 10, 2020...
View ArticleSt. Louis Lawsuit Against Second Amendment Preservation Act is Totally Baseless
The Missouri state legislature recently passed (and Governor Parson quickly signed) HB 85, the Second Amendment Preservation Act, a bill designed to ensure that state and local law enforcement in...
View ArticleNEW CASE: Freedom Center Challenges St. Louis City’s Requirement That...
As seems to happen every few years, candidates for political office are once again trying to knock their opponents off the ballot – this time for the Democratic Primary for nomination to serve on the...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Missouri Constitution!
On July 19, 1820, Missouri’s first Constitutional Convention signed and adopted the state’s first constitution. With the foundational document of statehood thus in place, Missouri elected its first...
View ArticleFederal Judge: City may limit Good Samaritans’ ability to feed the homeless
A federal judge in St. Louis has ruled that St. Louis may punish Good Samaritans for providing meals to the homeless unless those Good Samaritans first comply with the same costly and burdensome...
View ArticleVICTORY! Court of Appeals Orders St. Louis Circuit Attorney to Produce Public...
After two years of litigating against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on behalf of acclaimed journalist John Solomon, the Freedom Center notched an important victory for government...
View ArticleFreedom Center Files Brief in Support of Second Amendment Preservation Act
The Freedom Center has filed an important brief on behalf of Gun Owners of America, Inc., and the Gun Owners Foundation in support of Missouri’s new Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA). The...
View ArticleOral Argument Set for Good Samaritan Case
At 9:00 a.m. on June 16, 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Redlich v. City of St. Louis, a case that challenges the City’s interference with a pastor’s efforts to...
View ArticleFreedom Center on the Cowboy & Judge Show
Dave Roland visits the Cowboy & Judge Show in St. Louis to talk about the Freedom Center’s work The Freedom Center of Missouri’s Director of Litigation, Dave Roland, recently sat down for an...
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After Four Years, Rebecca Varney Can Once Again Go to City Hall
In 2018 the City of Edgar Springs, Missouri, responded to Rebecca Varney’s diligent reviewing of public records and criticisms of the local government by banning her from entering City Hall. In...
View ArticleRebecca Varney Proves You CAN Successfully Fight (To Go To) City Hall
On November 15, 2022, Phelps County Circuit Judge John Beger issued a judgment holding that the City of Edgar Springs, Missouri, had violated Rebecca Varney’s right to due process of law by banning...
View ArticleFreedom Center Files Eighth Circuit Brief Defending Second Amendment...
The Freedom Center of Missouri has long been at the forefront of the battle to preserve citizens’ right to keep and bear arms. We helped draft the amendment voters adopted in 2014 to broaden the right...
View ArticleVICTORY! Missouri Court of Appeals Rules (Again) That Cole County Prosecuting...
More than eight years ago the Cole County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office refused even to search for certain public records that Aaron Malin had requested. In 2019 the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed...
View ArticleVICTORY! Trial court holds that city violated First Amendment, Equal...
On September 1, 2023, the Phelps County Circuit Court held a trial in Rebecca Varney v. City of Edgar Springs, a case in which small-town officials banned a resident from City Hall for four years...
View ArticleVICTORY! Court of Appeals Orders St. Louis Circuit Attorney to Produce Public...
After two years of litigating against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on behalf of acclaimed journalist John Solomon, the Freedom Center notched an important victory for government...
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