Category: First Amendment Lawsuits

The Supreme Court considers if government can coerce social-media platforms to censor content it doesn’t like.

Back in  2016, I filed the first federal lawsuit challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) under the First Amendment. It was dismissed for “lack of standing.” Absurd. And the big giant giants have managed to stay one step ahead, dancing around their gross violations against our fundamental freedoms. Until now.

This is illegal and an absolute violation of our first amendment rights. I sued the government dozens of times and won when they tried to censor by advertising campaigns. Further, they were compelled to pay my legal fees for violating those rights.

In 2016, I filed a lawsuit against the DoJ challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) (the first lawsuit of its kind) under the First Amendment. The lawsuit was dismissed for “lack of standing.” These emails prove otherwise. Every American who has been censored by these social media giants has standing and should file suit.

Check out my latest at The Thinker:

It took over well a decade…..but we won! Background: In 2008, I was in Florida covering the Rifqa Bary court hearings to return her to her devout family, which had promised to kill to her because the teen had left Islam. I was waiting on my ride to the courthouse when I saw this ad…

This is one for Supremes.

The DOJ is employing the very same legal argument we employed in our social media free speech lawsuit filed in 2016, more on that here.

New York, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, has become the epicenter of constitutional violations.

Turncoat Roberts is a nightmare. This is a first amendment right – plain and simple. You can gamble but you can’t go to church. You can burn down cities but you can’t go to church?

This case seeks to protect and vindicate fundamental liberties that citizens of the United States enjoy free from government interference. 

The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of political activist Pamela Geller, challenges the Governor’s and Mayor’s executive orders which prohibit “non-essential gatherings” of more than 10 people in the City—orders which make it unlawful to peaceably assemble and protest, unless your protest supports the political agenda of the BLM movement.

In an extraordinary rebuke of judicial redress, Clinton appointed Judge Denise Cote tried to dismiss our  lawsuit against New York City’s ban against protests. I have filed many a free speech lawsuit against various municipalities including New York and never before did I see a judge schedule our hearing almost immediately and try to dismiss it just as quickly – without even giving us an opportunity to present our case. This is a glaring example of how decayed and corrupt the New York political system is.

“There is no justification, pandemic or otherwise, for a government official to revoke this fundamental right of the people.”

This will not stand. Stay tuned.

Barr is taking on the social media giants using the legal argument in our 2016 lawsuit challenging section 230 of the FEC code granting 1st amendment immunity to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Because at the end of the day, free speech is the foundation of any free society.

What’s missing from @NYDailyNews’ op-ed is their mea culpa AND that every single American city followed suit.

Cowed by Islamic supremacy, not one media outlet dared show the ad. Or mention that this is about free speech, not Muhammad. Which is why the ad must run.

This important First Amendment case is far from over

“These restrictions are unlawful regardless of the nature of the forum.”

We sued. We won. And the liberals did what they do – banned free speech. #chilling

AFDI v WMATA — the freedom to express a viewpoint free from government censorship.

The D.C. Circuit revived our free speech case for further consideration of whether the ‘Geller ban’ on ads is reasonable.

Outrageous violation our our First Amendment rights. But there is a silver lining. The antisemites, “Palestinian”terror supporters, antifa terrorists et al can’t run ads either

“We now hold that this provision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.”

WMATA’s disdain for Plaintiffs and their speech is evident from the record below, and it is on full display in its brief filed in this Court.

It is good to see an uber-left organization like the ACLU, historically aligned with the jihad force, taking up a key fight for us in defense of our First Amendment freedoms.

We have moved forward with our D.C. legal action. On July 24, our legal team, AFLC, filed our opening brief in the DC Circuit in our lawsuit against Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Read it here:

Today the US Supreme Court ruled in our favor, that the government may not refuse to register “potentially offensive” names (SIOA is not offensive, that is a smear). We have been suing to trademark SIOA (Stop Islamization of America) for a number of years but were repeatedly refused because it was considered “disparaging” to Muslims. Longtime Geller Report readers are quite familiar with our First Amendment trademark case. It was, in effect, an application of sharia law (‘do not criticize Islam’).We have been fighting to trademark SIOA (Stop Islamization of America) for a number of years but were repeatedly refused because the courts considered it “disparaging” to Muslims. Longtime Geller Report readers are quite familiar with our First Amendment trademark case. It was, in effect, an application of sharia law (‘do not criticize Islam’). Today the US Supreme Court Given ruled that the government may not refuse to register potentially offensive names. Excelsior!

In a unanimous vote, the uber-left San Francisco autocratic government shut down free speech on transit systems last Tuesday after our organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, submitted our latest ad campaign to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority to run on buses across the city.

Our lawsuit challenging the violations of our First Amendment freedoms by social media giants Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube moves forward.

We are moving forward with our fraud suit in London. Anti-Sharia Ads Censored On London Transport My human rights organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, has filed suit in the United Kingdom – again. We are fighting for freedom there harder than most Brits. Back in June I reported that we were starting a new…

Our lawsuit proceeds to finally hold the social media giants accountable for rampant free speech violations. “Pamela Geller: Left Press Lashes Out Against Our Free Speech Lawsuit,” Breitbart News, October 16, 2016: Leftist publications and pundits are rubbing their hooves in glee at the Department of Justice’s response to our recent lawsuit challenging Section 230…

The Department of Justice responded to our Facebook/social media first amendment lawsuit. The American Thinker has it here. [the_ad id=”81586″] Leftist Press Lashes Out Against Our Free Speech Lawsuit By Pamela Geller, The American Thinker, October 10, 2016: Leftist publications and pundits are rubbing their hooves in glee at the Department of Justice’s response to…

Make no mistake — we amended our suit (more here) to correct the “factual errors,” and we will go back. The error in our ad was that we implied the reward for the capture of an FBI terrorism suspect was paid for by the FBI when in fact, the reward is paid by the State…

Today The Supreme Court of the United States denied our cert petition in this case. However, Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Alito, filed an excellent dissent, see below. The dissent is just that, a dissent. It is not the outcome we wanted, but it is certainly worth reading.  It boils this fight down to its…

An appeals court judge has upheld a previous ruling that the MTA’s policy of refusing all political and religious ads in the transit system is legal, meaning the agency can continue to reject controversial posters by firebrand Pamela Geller and the anti-Muslim American Freedom law Center– for now. But Islamic supremacists who sued to run…

The fight goes on ….. and on and on. We won’t stop until these sharia restrictions on our First Amendment rights are lifted. “N.Y. Federal Appeals Court to Hear Argument in Geller’s Case against MTA” Tomorrow morning, David Yerushalmi, Senior Counsel at the American Freedom Law Center, will present oral argument before the U.S. Court…

Longtime Atlas readers are quite familiar with our First Amendment trademark case. We have been fighting to trademark SIOA (Stop Islamization of America) but were repeatedly refused because it considered “disparaging” to Muslims. It was, in effect, an application of sharia law (‘do not criticize Islam.’) Today we had a big victory against this fascist-style…

This is what happens when government arbitrarily decides what speech is good and what’s forbidden. That is the reason that our founding fathers made the freedom of speech our first (not the third or the fifth or the eight) amendment. Geller: NYC & Boston Run Nazi and Anti-Semitic Ads, Ban AFDI Pro-Israel Ads, By Pamela…

The MBTA has repeatedly refused to run our pro-Israel ads, which we submitted in response to vicious anti-Israel ads like the one they are currently running (below). This is just the latest in a number of antisemitic ad campaigns. We are fighting the MBTA in the courts and  have filed a cert petition to SCOTUS….

The recent ruling by Judge McMahon to allow political ads by Muslims, but not our political ads, has proven our very point. The government cannot pick and choose what political messages it will or will not support. That’s Venezuela, not America. Sharia Judge Colleen McMahon Rules Muslims Get Special Privileges The New York Times has…

Check out my column in today’s WND. The latest federal ruling clearly demonstrates the continued erosion of our First Amendment rights and the gruesome imposition of blasphemy laws under the sharia (Islamic law). After banning our ads designed to increase awareness of the jihad threat, a Federal court (more like a sharia court) ruled that…

The courts are playing fast and loose with our First Amendment rights, again. Having been in the middle of the free speech fight now for the better part of ten years, I can tell you that we are witnessing the shredding of our constitutional rights. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered New York City’s Metropolitan…

AFLC Files Opening Brief in Appeal of District Court Order that Allowed MTA to Sidestep an Injunction and Refuse to Display Pamela Geller’s Ad Today, lawyers for Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their non-profit organization, American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), filed their opening brief in their appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…

We are taking our free speech fight to the Supreme Court. AFDI vs. Boston’s transit authority. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) refused to our two pro-Israel/anti-jihad advertisements on their buses. Yes, Boston. The MBTA claimed it was demeaning to Muslims – as if all Muslims were Jew haters and jihadists. Wait, it gets worse….

Here’s the latest in our battle against the fascists in de Blasio’s New York. This is the key fight in the war on freedom on this country. Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of our constitutional republic. “Federal Court: MTA Violated Pamela Geller’s First Amendment Rights and Must Pay as a Result,” AFLC, July 20,…

We were back in court yesterday — crossing swords, or in their case, clubs, with the deeply corrupt clique of rich fixers: Judge John Koeltl, Victor Kovner, now lead attorney for the MTA, and smoking his fat cigar behind closed doors libeler Charles Moerdler, the MTA board member, who led the ban against free speech…

The rules have led the agency to reject applications for the name of a rooster-shaped lollipop for having a “vulgar meaning” and “Stop the Islamisation of America” by activist Pamela Geller because it may disparage religious practitioners. Anyone who says anything perceived to be “offensive” to protected classes is fair game now. Washington Redskins, Disparaging…

In what could only called an end-run around the First Amendment, the Washington Transit Authority banned “political ads” after AFDI submitted our free speech campaign. As one of my readers pointed out, no contemporary medium of communication may pass the test of being merely commercial and non-political. The New York Times runs an editorial page…

We are appealing the liberal-fascists’ end run around the First Amendment. “AFLC Appeals Order Allowing MTA to Sidestep Injunction and Refuse Pamela Geller’s Ad,” AFLC, June 22, 2015 Today (June 22, 2015), lawyers for Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their non-profit organization, American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), filed a notice of appeal to the U.S….