Marc Randazza

Marc J. Randazza (born November 26, 1969) is an American First Amendment attorney and a legal commentator on InfoWars.

Randazza was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

He graduated from Gloucester High School in 1987.

Randazza attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he majored in journalism.

In 1996, Randazza was inspired to attend law school by the film The People vs. Larry Flynt.

He attended Georgetown University Law Center and graduated in 2000.

During law school, he interned for Denise Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court.

He continued his First Amendment education by attending the University of Florida, where he earned a master's degree in communications, writing his thesis on vote pairing, which was cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Randazza is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts (2002), Florida (2003), California (2010), Arizona (2010), and Nevada (2012).

Randazza's first case was representing a fraternity at Boston University when the brothers of that fraternity were accused of destroying their house and other misconduct.

He then began practicing in Florida as a real estate attorney.

He quickly returned to the First Amendment and media field, taking on representation of an adult bookstore in Fort Myers, Florida.

Soon thereafter, he moved to Orlando, Florida where his practice in First Amendment and media law expanded.

He started representing defendants in SLAPP suits, pornography businesses, protestors, in often unpopular constitutional law matters.

In 2004, his University of Florida thesis gained attention as vote pairing became a minor issue during the 2004 election.

Randazza was asked to debate the issue on Fox News, and thereafter has been a frequent legal commentator on television and in print.

Randazza served as a professor of law at Barry University School of Law, located in Orlando, Florida.

where he taught First Amendment law, copyright law, trademark law, and entertainment law.

Randazza has a practice that primarily focuses on the areas of First Amendment litigation, adult entertainment, trademark and copyright litigation, and domain name arbitration disputes.

He has represented a number of well-known adult entertainment companies including Kink.com, Bang Bus, and Milf Hunter.

He also represents media businesses such as BME and bloggers in SLAPP suits.

Randazza has represented controversial figures across the political spectrum.

For example, he has represent multiple far-right figures, including Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, and Chuck Johnson; and neo-Nazi, white supremacist Andrew Anglin.

Randazza defended a participant in the planning of the violent Unite the Right rally who used the pseudonym "Kristall.night" (cf. Kristallnacht).

Kristall.night claimed that a federal subpoena against the app Discord following the deadly rally would reveal her identity and expose her to potential harm through doxing.

Randazza defended Anglin in a lawsuit filed by a Jewish realtor in Whitefish, Montana, whose name and address Anglin had published on his neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.

Randazza argued that Anglin was not responsible for the subsequent harassment and death threats the woman received, as the personal information was protected as free speech.

This claim was rejected by U.S. District Court Judge Dana L. Christensen, who noted that Anglin was actively encouraging and participating in the plaintiff's harassment, and that calls to violence against a private individual are not protected speech.

On other portions of the political spectrum, Randazza has represented perennial candidate Vermin Supreme.

On Oct. 1, 2014, Randazza was named by Desert Companion Magazine to its top lawyers in Southern Nevada list.

In 2017, Randazza helped Supreme obtain a permit to bring a pony to protest a Hillary Clinton book signing.

In 2018, Randazza represented Supreme in an effort to run for Attorney General of Kansas.

Similarly, he has represented the defendant in Beck v. Eiland-Hall, a case before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) filed by political commentator Glenn Beck, concerning a satire website parodying Beck.

The WIPO arbitrator ruled against Beck in the case, and in favor of Randazza's client.

Randazza was set to represent Alex Jones, the founder of InfoWars, in a Connecticut Superior Court case in 2018 after the infamous conspiracy theorist was sued by six families of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

However, when Randazza filed a pro hac vice application to be added to the Sandy Hook case as an out-of-state lawyer, the judge denied it, citing "serious misconduct," namely the discipline arising from the dispute with Liberty Media Holdings noted below.

Randazza's firm, however, continued to represent Jones on and off in the litigation, even though Randazza himself did not enter an appearance.

Randazza also represented InfoWars in a copyright dispute over the use of a Pepe the Frog image.

He also filed suit for InfoWars against the Federal Aviation Administration to permit the use of a drone to gather news footage at the U.S./Mexico border.

Randazza has gained attention for handling high-profile First Amendment cases and for his defense of the adult entertainment field.