Robin Ficker

Robin Ficker
House of Delegates, 1979-82
Born	(1943-04-05) April 5, 1943 (age 73)
Residence	Boyds, Maryland
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Baltimore School of Law
Occupation	Attorney, real estate broker
Known for	Interesting law cases, political activism, sports heckling
Political party	Republican
Children	Desiree Ficker, Rob Ficker, Flynn Ficker

Robin Ficker (born April 5, 1943) is an American attorney, real estate broker, political activist, and sports heckler who lives in Boyds, Maryland.

Ficker attended the United States Military Academy for five semesters. He received a B.S. in electrical and mechanical engineering from Case Institute of Technology. Ficker attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, receiving his JD from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Ficker also received an M.A. in public administration from American University in 1969.

Ficker won two landmark injunctions preventing the state of Maryland from denying access to serious traffic and criminal court records. In 1992 U.S. District Court Judge Nickerson granted Ficker an injunction against provisions of the Maryland Public Information Act that denied access to police reports, criminal charging documents, and traffic citations in the Maryland Automated Traffic System. A 2003 Attorneys General opinion said the 1992 "Ficker order is still in effect and enforceable." In 1997, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Ficker successfully challenged the constitutionality of a Maryland law forbidding lawyers from targeted direct-mail solicitation of criminal and traffic defendants within thirty days of arrest.

He has been a member of the Maryland Bar since 1973. His first case went to the Supreme Court of the United States seeking to end the National Football League's blackout of sold out home football games. In 1973 Ficker, representing Deborah Drudge, gained a consent judgment signed by Federal District Court Judge Roszel C. Thomsen, forbidding evaluations based on facial features and physique, for positions in the office of the Montgomery County Attorney. The judgment said no future applicant could be asked any questions regarding marital status or child care arrangements. On January 6, 1986, U. S. District Court Judge Norman Ramsey, ordered, in a suit brought by Robin Ficker against the Montgomery County Board of Elections, that Md. Election Code Art. 33, S 23-5(4) limiting the payment of money to petition circulators for initiative measures be declared null and void under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Ficker continued his trial successes in 2013 when he represented a Hyattsville, MD man who was found not guilty by a jury of all 23 counts in a case of attempted murder, armed robbery, carjacking, assault and eluding police among other charges.