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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. (Photo via Acroterion/Wikimedia)
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) A former Baltimore city attorney argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday that the publication of his membership history with a neo-Nazi group amounted to defamation so severe it should not be protected by the First Amendment.
“This case is extraordinarily important, not just for me, but for the fundamental principles of freedom of speech,” Glen K. Allen told a three-judge panel in a virtual Fourth Circuit hearing.
Allen’s dispute dates back to 2015 when the Southern Poverty Law Center got a tranche of documents from an accountant who worked for white supremacist group National Alliance.
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, a megachurch in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that is home to Coral Ridge Ministries. (By Jimmy Baikovicius)
(CN) A Florida ministry urged an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to hold the Southern Poverty Law Center and Amazon responsible for what it called a discriminatory labeling of the church as a hate group, a designation that has prevented it from fundraising through Amazon’s charitable website.
“We continue to be defamed and we continue to be discriminated against,” attorney David C. Gibbs III told the panel during virtual arguments Tuesday morning. “When you present it as a fact, ‘this is a hate group,’ then they have to be held responsible for that incorrect statement.”