Statement of Andrea Costello, attorney for the Plaintiffs in Tummino v Hamburg, Senior Staff Attorney, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund: “The Obama Administration is speaking out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to the basic rights of…
Reprinted from The Associated Press The Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives available to girls of all ages within 30 days, a federal judge has ruled, saying the agency’s decisions regarding the so-called morning-after pill were “arbitrary, capricious and…
Reprinted from The Gainesville Sun A federal judge’s ruling Friday morning ordering the FDA to lift restrictions on the morning-after pill — making it available over the counter to females of all ages — was a victory for several Gainesville women…
Reprinted from Wall Street On Parade The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) has released new documents it obtained under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The documents show that DHS, the sprawling…
Monitoring Peaceful Demonstrations and Activists as a Matter of Policy Government documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) through its FOIA records requests reveal that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency created after the September…
The CIA will neither confirm nor deny whether it had knowledge of, or involvement in, a plot to poison or otherwise assassinate the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. In response to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by…
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even…
Totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent Reprinted from The Guardian It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at…
Reprinted from CNN New York (CNN) — The FBI extensively monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement around the United States, using counterterrorism agents and other resources, according to recently released FBI internal documents. The heavily redacted documents indicate that FBI counterterrorism agents…
Reprinted from The New York Times The Federal Bureau of Investigation used counterterrorism agents to investigate the Occupy Wall Street movement, including its communications and planning, according to newly disclosed agency records. The F.B.I. records show that as early as September…
Occupy Wall Street Edition Reprinted from New York Observer It turns out that all you crazy, post-hippy Occupy Wall Streeters were right: the government does not have your best interest at hearts. In fact, the FBI just released a heavily redacted…
Reprinted from Washington Post A federal judge on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional the District’s regulations for hanging political signs on lampposts. U.S. District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s ruling finds that the city’s rules governing how long signs can…