Nick Place, constitutional rights attorney with the Center for Protest Law and Litigation at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and a Marine veteran, with a message to servicemembers being deployed to Los Angeles: Your oath is to the Constitution…
Excerpt from the Advocate. Read the full article here. “Meanwhile, a watchdog group, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, announced on Tuesday that it has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the National Park Service, the Department of the…
FOIAs Require Disclosure of Communications and Other Information Related to Closure and Subsequent Recission The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) today filed Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIA) demanding the disclosure of records from the Trump Administration’s National Park…
PCJF/CPLL Executive Director, Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, spoke with POLITICO about the DOJ’s targeting nonviolent protestors for prosecution: “There are those in higher levels of law enforcement authority who are celebrating and countenancing and supporting a violent attack on the Capitol, and…
The Center for Protest Law & Litigation at the PCJF, co-counsel Thomas Seabaugh, and the ACLU Foundation of Northern California have successfully resolved litigation arising from University of California Santa Cruz’ campus bans of more than 100 students and faculty…
In an important victory for civil liberties and defense of anti-genocide protestors, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Erika Ziegenhorn ruled that UC Santa Cruz was not entitled to the wide breadth of information it sought to access when it…
“The verdict against Greenpeace is a threat to the fundamental right to free speech & protest.” The Protect the Protest Coalition, of which we are a member, has released a statement on the verdict reached in the SLAPP against Greenpeace.…
Our Rights Are at Stake. We Will Not Be Silenced. In America, our government cannot do whatever it wants. And we, the people, have a right to ask for what we need, defend ourselves from abuse, and speak our minds.…
This week’s verdict against Greenpeace in the lawsuit brought by oil giant Energy Transfer Partners is a profound attack on First Amendment rights and the ability of communities to speak truth to the powerful. This lawsuit sought to punish Greenpeace…
Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the full article here. A UC Santa Cruz student and pro-Palestinian activist whose cell phone was seized by campus police — while she was standing outside her dorm in her pajamas during a…