Legal Opinion
Huminski v. Corsones
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 7, 2004No. Docket Nos. 02-6201(L), 02-6150(XAP), 02-6199(XAP), 03-6059(CON)PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Scott Huminski, is a longtime critic of the Vermont justice system who has sought to disseminate his message using a wide variety of means and media. In 1997, he became infuriated by what he thought to be his mistreatment by Vermont judges and prosecutors in the course of criminal proceedings against him. He therefore began to include angry denunciations of them in his public communications. He apparently thought himself to be a legitimate gadfly — a quintessential example of what Justice White once referred to as the “lonely pamphleteer.”1 But Vermont…
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