How to Break a City’s Flag Policy (Legally) Using FOI A Case Study from New Britain, Connecticut Cities love free speech—until it gets uncomfortable. New Britain raised a Christian flag over City Hall. When I requested to raise a different flag, the city didn’t debate theology or law. It reached for bureaucracy: resident-only rules, “no controversial flags”, and public safety …
How I Sued a Florida Politician While Dying (and Why You Should Too) I Filed Before the Game Changed This started under Knight v. Trump—when courts still believed the First Amendment applied to Twitter like it did to a town square. Then I got sick. ICU. Tubes. Exit music queued. While I hung on by a nose-hair, SCOTUS dropped Lindke …
In bureaucratic fights, people assume money wins. It doesn’t. Clean structure wins. You don’t need a million-dollar war chest; you need a clean vehicle, a preserved injury, and the discipline to let procedure do the damage. I am currently litigating a First Amendment case (SDFL 0:24-cv-60623) against Florida State Representative Chip (aka Chip!) LaMarca for unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. The forum …
TL;DR Cities are throwing legal and procedural “error codes.” I function like an OBD-II scanner: I stress-test meeting rules (public comment, invocations, viewpoint neutrality), pull the diagnostics, and flag risk early—quietly, with city attorneys—before it becomes litigation or public spectacle. Most cities don’t fail because of bad intentions.They fail because no one stress-tests the system before it’s put under pressure. …
