Melvin Lipman is an attorney and civil libertarian living in Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

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Though currently retired from full-time legal practice, Lipman works as an arbitrator and mediator while teaching constitutional law at the Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

 campus of the University of Phoenix

University of Phoenix

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Lipman is president of the American Humanist Association

American Humanist Association

The American Humanist Association is an educational organization in the United States that advances Humanism. "Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism and other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that...

 and head of the legal team of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center

Louis Appignani

Louis Appignani, , is an entrepreneur and philanthropist from Miami, Florida. He is chairman and founder of Louja Realty Inc., he has been chairman and founder of Computer Education Inc. and, until 2000, Barbizon International Modeling School.-Biography:He was born March 30, 1933, in Manhattan in...

. He is a founder and past president of the Humanist Association of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada, former president of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Las Vegas, and a former board member of the Nevada Civil Liberties Union. He serves as an advisory board member of the Secular Student Alliance

Secular Student Alliance

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 and is a member of the Las Vegas Interfaith Council.

His daughter, Lori Lipman Brown

Lori Lipman Brown

Lori Lipman Brown has served as a state senator, lobbyist, lawyer, educator, and social worker supporter. Additionally, her political views have been secularist and civil libertarian and describes herself as an atheist humanist Jew. She served as a Nevada Senator from 1992 to 1994, advocating for...

is a former member of the Nevada State Senate.