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Court tosses lawsuit over SPLC articles on lawyer Glen Keith Allen's neo-Nazi ties
Source: Associated Press
Court tosses lawsuit over SPLC articles on lawyer’s neo-Nazi ties
Updated 5:53 PM; Today 5:53 PM
By The Associated Press
By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit in which a Baltimore attorney accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of defaming him in articles highlighting his ties to a neo-Nazi group.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Glen K. Allen’s claim that his membership in the National Alliance, once the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group, wasn’t a matter of public concern.
The panel noted that Allen was involved in a white supremacist organization while he was defending the city of Baltimore against a lawsuit brought by a Black man who claimed he was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 19 years in prison.
The city fired him as an attorney for its law department after the Alabama-based SPLC published an August 2016 article that described Allen as a “well-known neo-Nazi lawyer” and noted his work on the Black man’s lawsuit. The article also included copies of receipts for Allen’s National Alliance dues payments and presented evidence of his attendance at a “Holocaust Revisionist Conference.”
In 2017, the law center published a “hate map” that included a photograph of Allen bearing the caption, “Exposing Racists Who Infiltrate Public Institutions.”
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Updated 5:53 PM; Today 5:53 PM
By The Associated Press
By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit in which a Baltimore attorney accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of defaming him in articles highlighting his ties to a neo-Nazi group.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Glen K. Allen’s claim that his membership in the National Alliance, once the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group, wasn’t a matter of public concern.
The panel noted that Allen was involved in a white supremacist organization while he was defending the city of Baltimore against a lawsuit brought by a Black man who claimed he was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 19 years in prison.
The city fired him as an attorney for its law department after the Alabama-based SPLC published an August 2016 article that described Allen as a “well-known neo-Nazi lawyer” and noted his work on the Black man’s lawsuit. The article also included copies of receipts for Allen’s National Alliance dues payments and presented evidence of his attendance at a “Holocaust Revisionist Conference.”
In 2017, the law center published a “hate map” that included a photograph of Allen bearing the caption, “Exposing Racists Who Infiltrate Public Institutions.”
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Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/court-tosses-lawsuit-over-splc-articles-on-lawyers-neo-nazi-ties.html
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Related: Neo-Nazi Lawyer Represents Baltimore in Suit Over Wrongful Arrest and 19-Year Imprisonment of Black Man (SPLC)
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