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The New York Times: This ‘Tenacious Underdog’ Won His First Supreme Court Case. Now He’s Back

December 04, 2017
by Aymee Vasquez
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WASHINGTON — About a decade ago, the leaders of a Florida city held a closed-door meeting to discuss how to intimidate and silence a critic named Fane Lozman. So far, their plan has not worked. Mr. Lozman calls himself “a persistent and tenacious underdog,” which may be an understatement. He is an indefatigable gadfly and an unusually successful litigant. In 2013, he won his first Supreme Court ca
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Miami Herald: He’s a Marine, a renegade, a vanquisher of corrupt pols. And now: First Amendment icon

January 13, 2018
by Aymee Vasquez
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BY GLENN GARVIN | January 13, 2018 07:00 PM Perpetual South Florida political gadfly Fane Lozman has an odd effect on people. When he appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court five years ago, the justices were so intrigued by his arguments that his houseboat was a house and not a boat that they ended up arguing about whether the poor wooden puppet-boy Pinocchio was really a boat while he was travelin
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The Atlantic: Can Government Officials Have You Arrested for Speaking to Them?

January 15, 2018
by Aymee Vasquez
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The Supreme Court faces a test of the authority of politicians to use police to silence their critics.
The Supreme Court faces a test of the authority of politicians to use police to silence their critics. GARRETT EPPS  | JAN 15, 2018 If a citizen speaks at a public meeting and says something a politician doesn’t like, can the citizen be arrested, cuffed, and carted off to the hoosegow? Suppose that, during this fraught encounter, the citizen violates some law—even by accident, even one no one has
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U.S. Supreme Court hears Riviera Beach city council meeting free-speech dispute

February 28, 2018
by Aymee Vasquez
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  WASHINGTON – After a 12-year-long legal battle, the case of Riviera Beach resident Fane Lozman against the city was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. Lozman was arrested at a city council meeting in 2006. He had only taken the podium for a few moments before then-City Council member Elizabeth Wade ordered him to stop talking and eventually asked an officer to “carry” Lozman out.
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First Mondays, Supreme Court podcast, OT2017 #7: “Keys to a Valet”

November 27, 2017
by Aymee Vasquez
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Lozman cert grant discussed at 26 1/2  minute of podcast. It’s finally here: Carpenter v. United States. For months, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the argument in this hugely important case about whether the Fourth Amendment restricts the government’s ability to get location information from cellphone service providers. (Ian has been waiting even longer, as he wrote about the legal issue in his stud
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Miami Herald: Supreme Court says South Florida man’s floating home isn’t a boat

January 26, 2013
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WASHINGTON — Fane Lozman, a self-described “corruption fighter” whose legal battle over his Riviera Beach floating home made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, won his case in a ruling that has wide implications for the nation’s maritime industry. The Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision Tuesday, overturned an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, deciding the city of Riviera Beach could not reg
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AP: Floating home not covered under maritime law

January 26, 2013
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Florida man’s floating home was a house, not a boat, and not covered under maritime law, in a case that could affect thousands of people around the country who make their home on floating structures in marinas, bays and coves. The high court ruled 7-2 for Fane Lozman, who argued that the gray, two-story craft approximately 60 fee
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NYTimes: It May Float, but a Home Isn’t a Boat, Justices Rule.

January 26, 2013
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WASHINGTON — A floating home is not a vessel to be regulated under federal admiralty law, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a colorful decision that featured photographs and the first dissenting opinion in an argued case since the term started in October. The case was closely watched by businesses that operate floating structures like casinos, restaurants and hotels. Structures deemed to be ve
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PBPost: Fane Lozman, winner in Supreme Court case against Riviera Beach, calls it ‘an amazing day’

January 26, 2013
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Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Fane Lozman, a Marine turned multi-millionaire inventor turned thorn in the side of Riviera Beach officials, has won his long-running legal battle against the city over his floating home. In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that Lozman’s 60-foot, two-story home that was once anchored at the Riviera Beach Marina was not a vessel. As Lozman has
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The Fane Lozman Story

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This is a true story of a persistent and tenacious underdog who fought against the governmental seizure of 2200 homes and businesses in 2006 only to see that same government arrest and destroy his floating home three years later, for an alleged failure to pay one month’s rent at the marina. Fane Lozman did not give up but continued the improbable climb from a county court eviction case to the US Supreme Court.

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The nomination for the Pete Weitzel/Friend of the First Amendment Award was based on Mr. Lozman’s most recent case before the US Supreme Court. Fane was arrested after speaking at a city commission meeting and is claiming that arrest violated his First Amendment rights. Mr. Lozman is a formidable citizen activist who has been engaged in sunshine issues for years.
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They say the man who represents himself has a fool for a client, but this long-running David-and-Goliath case just might end with a local government looking like the fool.

It all started in 2006, when Lozman, a retired Chicago financier with plenty of money to burn on justice, claimed he had been illegally evicted from his floating home in Riviera Beach because of his activism against last-minute plans to sell the marina to a developer using eminent domain. He won that case, but the city stayed on his heels, coming after him with all kinds of accusations (he owed fees to the marina; his ten-pound dachshund was too dangerous).

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