Category: Public Statements

The First Amendment Lawyers Association today announces its opposition to the adoption, by the Ohio Department of Health, of proposed rules that would drastically curtail the ability of physicians to provide care to transgender patients or to provide patients with “any resources or information on where or how to receive such care,” in blatant derogation…

The First Amendment Lawyers Association deeply mourns the untimely death of our long-time member and dear friend, Reed C. Lee, of Chicago, Illinois, who suddenly passed away on December 26th. Reed was a giant among this generation of First Amendment lawyers. Among other pivotal roles that he played at FALA, he previously served as our…

As an organization devoted for more than 50 years to protecting freedom of expression, the First Amendment Lawyers Association (FALA) objects to the plainly anti-free speech Executive Order the President issued in the name of supposedly “preventing censorship.” The Order reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the history and operation of the First Amendment, the freedoms…