Jonathan Emord

Jonathan W. Emord, principle of Emord and Associates, practices constitutional and administrative law in Washington D.C. before the federal agencies. He is the only attorney in history that has defeated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seven times in federal court*, six times on First Amendment grounds. Emord began his legal career as an attorney in the Mass Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission in 1985 during the Reagan Administration. In 1992, he served as a Vice President at the Washington, D.C. think tank, the Cato Institute. Re-entering private practice, he formed his own law firm, Emord & Associates, in 1994 beginning with 10 clients and had over 450 by 2009. From 1994 to the present he has represented clients principally before the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Emord is rated “AV,” preeminent in the law (highest possible legal rating in both legal ability and ethical standards) by the Martindale-Hubbell organization. His career is marked by a series of victories over the FDA and by defense of individual rights against government regulation. He was awarded the Cancer Control Society’s Humanitarian Award in 2007 for writing “critically acclaimed First Amendment books and professional papers” and for “tearing down walls of censorship.” Congressman and presidential candidate, Ron Paul has referred to Emord as “a hero of the health freedom revolution” and has said “all freedom-loving Americans are in [his] debt. Emord has written several pieces of legislation for Congressman Paul designed to restore constitutional government, including the Health Freedom Act; the Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act; and the Freedom of Health Speech Act. In 2009, Emord began working with jurists and public interest groups in Europe and Canada to develop legal strategies for attacking restrictions on the right to communicate health information in those countries. Increasingly Emord’s work on defense of the right to communicate truthful nutrient-disease information has become international. In 2009 the Walter Reed publishing company together with Nutraingredients.com invited Emord to Brussels to explain how European Food Safety Authority restrictions on the right to communicate nutrient-disease information could be challenged before the European Court of Human Rights. Emord’s December 10, 2009 speech was widely reported in the European and American trade press. Visit emord.com for more information, video and case details.