After graduating from Harvard Law School, Matz taught police science and clerked for a United States District Judge before joining Hughes Hubbard's Los Angeles office in 1970. From 1974 to 1978, Matz served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California.

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"If it is true that Mel threatened to burn her house down, that could be considered a criminal terrorist threat. A terrorist threat can be anything designed to induce harm or kill another individual, it doesn’t have to come from Al-Qaeda to be classified as terrorism," explained Santa Monica-based Criminal Defense Attorney, Steve Cron. "There is a real possibility that the police department or a prosecuting agency could take action."

("The very purpose of the First Amendment is to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind through regulating the press, speech, and religion. To this end, the government, even with the purest of motives, may not substitute its judgment as to how best to speak for that of speakers and listeners[.]") (citation and internal quotation marks omitted);

After nearly four decades of experience in the law, Howard Matz found himself embroiled in international controversy over treatment of Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray. Judge Matz presided over the first legal challenge to the United States Government's treatment of those prisoners, in a petition brought by a civil rights group seeking habeas corpus for 158 "detainees."

Judge Matz dismissed the petition on the grounds that United States courts do not have jurisdiction over the Cuban base where detainees are held and that the petitioners lacked standing since they had no "significant relationship" with the prisoners. In his ruling, Judge Matz emphasized that "nothing in this ruling suggests that the captives are entitled to no legal protection whatsoever."

GEE, MAYBE THEY SHOULD REPRESENT THEMSELVES???

Suspicion that viewpoint discrimination is afoot is at its zenith when the speech restricted is speech critical of the government," Ridley v. Mass. Bay Transp. Auth., 390 F.3d 65, 86 (1st Cir. 2004)

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