1. Marc J Randazza was born on November 26,1969 and is an American First Amendment attorney and a legal commentator on InfoWars.
32 Facts About Marc Randazza
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Marc Randazza is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts, Florida, California, Arizona, and Nevada.
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Marc Randazza then began practicing in Florida as a real estate attorney.
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Marc Randazza quickly returned to the First Amendment and media field, taking on representation of an adult bookstore in Fort Myers, Florida.
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Marc Randazza started representing defendants in SLAPP suits, pornography businesses, protestors, in often unpopular constitutional law matters.
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Marc Randazza was asked to debate the issue on Fox News, and thereafter has been a frequent legal commentator on television and in print.
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Marc Randazza served as a professor of law at Barry University School of Law, located in Orlando, Florida.
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Marc Randazza has a practice that primarily focuses on the areas of First Amendment litigation, adult entertainment, trademark and copyright litigation, and domain name arbitration disputes.
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Marc Randazza has represented a number of well-known adult entertainment companies including Kink.
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Marc Randazza represents media businesses such as BME and bloggers in SLAPP suits.
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On Oct 1,2014, Marc Randazza was named by Desert Companion Magazine to its top lawyers in Southern Nevada list.
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Marc Randazza defended Anglin in a lawsuit filed by a Jewish realtor in Whitefish, Montana, whose name and address Anglin had published on his neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.
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Marc Randazza argued that Anglin was not responsible for the subsequent harassment and death threats the woman received, as the personal information was protected as free speech.
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On other portions of the political spectrum, Marc Randazza has represented perennial candidate Vermin Supreme.
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In 2017, Marc Randazza helped Supreme obtain a permit to bring a pony to protest a Hillary Clinton book signing.
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In 2018, Marc Randazza represented Supreme in an effort to run for Attorney General of Kansas.
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Marc Randazza was set to represent Alex Jones, the founder of InfoWars, in a Connecticut Superior Court case in 2018 after the infamous conspiracy theorist was sued by six families of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
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However, when Marc Randazza filed a pro hac vice application to be added to the Sandy Hook case as an out-of-state lawyer, the judge denied it, citing "serious misconduct," namely the discipline arising from the dispute with Liberty Media Holdings noted below.
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Marc Randazza's firm continued to represent Jones on and off in the litigation, even though Marc Randazza himself did not enter an appearance.
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Marc Randazza represented InfoWars in a copyright dispute over the use of a Pepe the Frog image.
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Marc Randazza has gained attention for handling high-profile First Amendment cases and for his defense of the adult entertainment field.
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In 2013, Marc Randazza lobbied the Nevada legislature to update Nevada's Anti-SLAPP statute.
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Marc Randazza lobbied to keep the statute in its speech-protective form.
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Marc Randazza contended that since Klingon was invented in the 1980s, the language has expanded past its origins, pointing to examples like dictionaries, translations of Shakespeare, the Klingon Language Institute, official government statements, a wedding conducted in Klingon, and translation service available through Bing.
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Marc Randazza is defending The Gateway Pundit in claims brought by two Georgia election workers arising from statements regarding their role in counting the ballots at the State Farm Arena in November 2020.
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Marc Randazza has handled a number of "cameras in the courtroom" cases, defending the rights of the news media to attend and televise courtroom proceedings.
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In that case, Marc Randazza represented Courtroom View Network in its quest to televise a highly publicized trial in Las Vegas involving the Las Vegas Sands.
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Righthaven complained of what it called Marc Randazza's "scorched earth judgment enforcement efforts" in its legal filings.
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In 2021, Marc Randazza represented former Boston Ballet dancer Dusty Button and her husband, Mitchell Taylor Button.
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On June 3,2015, there was an interim arbitration award against Marc Randazza involving Liberty Media Holdings LLC, for whom Marc Randazza had been General Counsel from 2009 to 2012.
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Marc Randazza was given a one-year suspension, stayed for 18 months, with the requirement that he avoid subsequent ethics complaints for the 18 months following entry of the order, complete 20 hours of CLE classes, and pay the costs associated with the proceedings within 30 days.
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Reciprocal disciplinary proceedings occurred in other jurisdictions in which Marc Randazza is admitted, including Arizona, Massachusetts, and Florida, where reciprocal discipline was imposed.