Tom Julin recently spoke with the Daily Business Review following the Eleventh Circuit reversal of a district court's ruling in favor of Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that sued Brevard Public Schools. Julin believes the decision will have a broad impact, particularly in protecting individuals' rights to express their viewpoints at school board meetings.
Although, it also raises concerns about maintaining order during such meetings. He explains, "I would hope that doesn't happen and that, instead, we will have more clearly defined guidelines regarding what people can and cannot say."
Tom Julin has litigated free speech issues of almost every type in Florida and around the country. He is dedicated to advocating the First Amendment rights of businesses. Most notably, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled favorably in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552 (2011) on Tom’s argument that data mining for target marketing is protected against regulation that cannot survive heightened judicial scrutiny. That precedent-setting opinion, which resulted in the invalidation of three state laws, since has been cited in more than 1,000 judicial decisions in which companies have challenged laws and regulations restricting advertising, pharmaceutical sales, securities offerings, labor practices, Internet communications and more.
