After Bringing Up Epstein, Investor Was Arrested and Now Ratchets Up Lawsuit Against Berkshire Hathaway

A watchdog group whose chief was arrested at a corporate shareholder meeting after bringing up Jeffrey Epstein’s name asserted in court papers that it was an “unprecedented” crackdown on speech for shareholders of publicly traded companies.

Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, was arrested at the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, as first reported by The Daily Signal.

The center filed an appeal this week with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking the court to reverse a lower court's ruling that it was a trespass case.

Flaherty said he and other shareholders with proposals at the meeting were guests, not trespassers.

He asserted this hasn’t occurred before with someone on the agenda to speak.