John Feldmeier

{{Short description|American lawyer}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = John Phillip Feldmeier

| image = Jfp2008.jpg

| occupation = Attorney

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|3|16}}

| birth_place = Columbus, Ohio

| alma_mater = Ohio Dominican University (B.A.)
Capital University (J.D.)
Miami University (Ph.D.)

}}

John Phillip Feldmeier is an attorney with the Cincinnati, Ohio law firm of Sirkin, Kinsley, & Nazzarine (a spin-off of the now-dissolved Sirkin, Pinales, & Schwartz LLP), where he practices in the areas of criminal defense and first amendment litigation.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sirkinpinales.com/ |title=Cincinnati Ohio Criminal Defense & First Amendment Law Attorneys – Sirkin, Pinales & Schwartz LLP |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060107052229/http://www.sirkinpinales.com/ |archive-date=2006-01-07 |url-status=dead }} He served as co-counsel for the Free Speech Coalition, along with H. Louis Sirkin and Laura A. Abrams, in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, in which the United States Supreme Court struck down the "appears to be a minor" and "conveys the impression of a minor" provisions of the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996.{{cite web|url=http://judiciary.house.gov/Legacy/feldmeier031103.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-05-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809023604/http://judiciary.house.gov/legacy/feldmeier031103.htm |archivedate=2007-08-09 }} Feldmeier represented Beth Lewis in the Ohio Supreme Court case concerning attorney–client privilege in connection to the Erica Baker missing child investigation.[http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/08/27/loc_confidentiality_on.html Confidentiality on trial in Baker case] In 2003, he testified before the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security regarding the [https://web.archive.org/web/20050124074823/http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/108th/85642.pdf Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention Act of 2003], part of the PROTECT Act of 2003.{{cite web|url=http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/108th/85642.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-06-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050124074823/http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/108th/85642.pdf |archivedate=2005-01-24 }} In 2007, Feldmeier authored a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Free Speech Coalition in the U.S. v Williams case, the contents of which were the subject of much of the focus of the opinions of both the majority and dissent.[http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1030/p03s04-usju.html Is child-porn law too broad? | csmonitor.com]

He also has served in the past as an adjunct professor at Miami University, where he taught constitutional law, and he currently holds the position of associate professor of political science at Wright State University.[http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/pls/feldmeier/feldmeier.htm John Feldmeier – Political Science Department Faculty] He is a board member of the Greater Cincinnati Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and an active member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.