Esquire: How the Government is Turning Protesters into Felons
Lost between the tumult of Inauguration Day and the spectacle of the Women's March was the arrest of 214 protesters—now facing felony charges and 10 years in prison.
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PCJF Joins Legal Team Defending Water Protectors at Standing Rock
The PCJF is proud to be part of the legal team litigating in federal court against the violent, militarized police suppression of Water Protectors at Standing Rock. The WPLC filed Dundon v. Kirchmeier, a federal civil rights class action lawsuit…
PCJF Helps Win $125K Judgment for Illegal Public Strip Search
Reprinted from NBC4 Washington Watch the broadcast video above, featuring an interview with Mara Verheyden-Hilliard A D.C. man has won a $125,000 judgment after he was strip-searched by a Laurel, Maryland police officer in 2014 — an incident that police officials…
PCJF Testifies Against the Appointment of Peter Newsham as DC Metro Police Chief
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard delivers powerful testimony in front of the Washington D.C. Council, Committee on Judiciary & Public Safety, in defense of the right of people to protest peacefully without fear of being unjustly arrested, and against the…
Laurel Police Officer to Pay $125,000 in Civil Rights Lawsuit
A Laurel police officer has agreed to pay $125,000 to a Hyattsville man, who claims he was strip-searched in public by the officer based on racial profiling during a 2015 traffic stop.
Lawsuit: DC police withholding reports on protest response
Reprint from WTOP WASHINGTON — The organization that helped sue D.C. police over then-Assistant Chief Peter Newsham’s handling of anti-globalism protests in 2002 now alleges that the department is withholding information on its handling of January’s inaugural protests. In a…
PCJF Files Lawsuit Against DC MPD: Demands No Council Vote on Newsham Without Records Release
PCJF sues D.C. for withholding documents related to Interim Chief Peter Newsham’s handling of January 20th protest The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to obtain the…
PCJF Helps Win $125K Judgment for Illegal Public Strip Search
A D.C. man has won a $125,000 judgment after he was strip-searched by a Laurel, Maryland police officer in 2014 -- an incident that police officials initially denied ever happened.
Supreme Court Petition filed in Landmark Mass Protest Arrest Case
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and co-counsel Paul Hughes of Mayer Brown LLP and the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic have filed a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the…
PCJF Opposes Appointment of Free Speech/Civil Rights Violator to be Next D.C. Police Chief
Newsham Commanded Infamous Pershing Park Mass False Arrest of Hundreds of Demonstrators, Reporters, Legal Observers, Tourists and Passers-by Willfully Repeated Violations of the Law Just Last Month on Inauguration Day Donald Trump in the White House. Protestors in the streets…
Nominated D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham directed mass unconstitutional arrests
PCJF calls for D.C. Council to reject his appointment Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has today appointed Peter Newsham the Chief of Police. Newsham’s conduct from the Pershing Park mass arrests of 2002 to the dragnet arrests at Donald Trump’s…
FAIR’s CounterSpin: “People Have the Right to Take to the Streets” interview with Mara Verheyden-Hilliard
A travel ban aimed at Muslims, a wall on the Mexican border, an attempt to outlaw sanctuary cities. Every day of the Trump administration brings new reasons to protest. But the mass arrest of hundreds of people protesting the inauguration,…