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PCJF challenges Trump’s Executive Order targeting pro-Palestinian protestors as “racist and unhinged” attack on free speech

PCJF Staff Attorney & former Marine Nick Place spoke to Empire Files’ Mike Prysner on domestic deployment of US military

Civil Rights Orgs Warn Pomona College: Unprecedented Suspensions of Students Are Unlawful, ‘Punishes the Act of Protest Itself.’
Five legal organizations including Palestine Legal, the Asian Law Caucus, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the…

New Motions Demand the Court Dismiss Charges and Disqualify DA Brooke Jenkins in GG26 Case
The legal team for 26 activists who were arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge in April filed a motion in San Francisco’s superior court today,…

Civil Rights Groups Sue UCSC for Unlawful Campus Bans and Response to Student Protests
Today, The Center for Protest Law & Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh filed a lawsuit against the University…

GWU students arrested during protest face court orders to stay away from campus
Excerpt from The Washington Post George Washington University students arrested in the spring for protesting the US-backed genocide in Gaza are being subject to punitive…

Police Close Off Dolores Street, Skaters ‘Bomb’ Church Street Instead

PCJF, SF Latinx Democratic Club Urge SFPD to Change Tactics and Protect Children at Annual Skateboarding Event

Federal judge OKs most claims in Dolores Park hill bomb lawsuit, setting up class action battle
Excerpt from Mission Local. Read the full article. A federal judge said on Thursday that most of the civil rights claims against the San Francisco…

Police, Politics And Violent Repression Against Pro-Palestine Student Protest
Excerpt from Law & Disorder. Listen to the full interview here. During the Occupy Wall Street protests of late 2011 and early 2012, the FBI…
