John Feldmeier
John Phillip Feldmeier is an attorney with the
Cincinnati, Ohio law firm of Sirkin, Kinsley, & Nazzarine (a spin-off of the now-dissolved Sirkin, Pinales, & Schwartz LLP), where he practices in the areas of criminal defense and first amendment litigation. He served as co-counsel for the
Free Speech Coalition, along with H. Louis Sirkin and Laura A. Abrams, in
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, in which the
United States Supreme Court struck down the "appears to be a minor" and "conveys the impression of a minor" provisions of the
Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996. Feldmeier represented Beth Lewis in the
Ohio Supreme Court case concerning
attorney–client privilege in connection to the Erica Baker missing child investigation. In 2003, he testified before the
United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security regarding the [https://web.archive.org/web/20050124074823/http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/108th/85642.pdf Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention Act of 2003], part of the
PROTECT Act of 2003. In 2007, Feldmeier authored a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Free Speech Coalition in the
U.S. v Williams case, the contents of which were the subject of much of the focus of the opinions of both the majority and dissent.
He also has served in the past as an
adjunct professor at
Miami University, where he taught
constitutional law, and he currently holds the position of
associate professor of
political science at
Wright State University. He is a board member of the Greater Cincinnati Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and an active member of the
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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