Irving Adler, Ernst and Jessica Benjamin, Walter Bernstein, et al., Amici Curiae
John A. Freedman, Counsel of Record
The individuals in this brief were subject to or had family members affected by criminal penalties, a blacklist that precluded them from employment in their professions, or other governmental and social sanctions during the “Red Scare” from the 1930s to the 1960s. John A. Freedman is a partner with the law firm Arnold & Porter, where he specializes in litigation, government investigations, and white-collar crime. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 23, 2009. Sections 302 and 303 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act…
