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Marks & Katz, LLC's joint amicus curiae appellate brief with co-counsel David A. Wasserman has advanced a winning First Amendment argument before Maryland's highest court. This appellate victory -- which took over nineteen months from oral argument to written decision --is Pack Shack v. Howard County, Maryland, Md. No. 55, September Term, 2001, 2003 Md. LEXIS 544 (Sept. 10, 2003). The opinion is at http://www.courts.state.md.us/opinions/coa/2003/55a01.pdf. 

In this stunning vindication of First Amendment rights, the Maryland Court of Appeals rejected Howard County, Maryland's backdoor attempt to keep out adult entertainment businesses through its ordinance that left a minuscule number of sites available for the location of current and future adult businesses. The court grabbed onto our joint amicus brief's argument that the ordinance unconstitutionally required the disclosure of the identities of too many owners and financially interested parties in proposed and existing adult businesses. Our joint amicus brief was the only brief against the ordinance to address this issue head on, to the point that the concurring opinion found that the "clearest statement of this issue is located in the Amicus brief filed by [our client] Free Speech Coalition of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia."

Like most First Amendment free expression victories, the benefits of this court ruling go far beyond adult entertainment to benefit a whole host of other expressive activities, including political activists' rights, the entire entertainment industries' rights, and public school students' expressive rights.

Our law firm's joint amicus brief with co-counsel David A. Wasserman is at
http://markskatz.com/Adult.htm. Marks & Katz, LLC. Partner Jon Katz is also the President of our amicus client, the Free Speech Coalition of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

For samples of Marks & Katz's wins for justice, click here. (Each case is different (e.g., with a different set of facts, law, and adjudicators), and this listing is by no means meant to indicate the results Marks & Katz, LLC, will obtain for future clients. Our goal, of course, is for winning advocacy at every turn).

HOW WE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR YOU:

Marks & Katz fights for our clients armed with the following principles: (1) We stick to our highly-experienced roots of going to the mat one client at a time, regardless of how anonymous or high profile is our client or the case, and regardless of how controversial the matter; (2) Our sole obligation is to our clients and justice, in a legal system with the potential of doing substantial justice, but also fraught with landmines to inflict severe harm; (3) We keep at least an arm's length from the legal establishment, opposing lawyers, judges, and authorities, in order to keep our clients' interests and justice first; (4) Because nothing beats in-depth experience, your case stays with one or both of our two founding law partners -- with over thirty years of combined experience -- from beginning to end.  

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