Reprinted from Reuters Reproductive-rights groups that sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over access to the “morning-after” pill will ask a judge to hold the agency in contempt if it fails to comply with a court order directing it to…
PCJF will move for contempt if government does not comply Reprinted from The Guardian Reproductive-rights groups said on Wednesday they would ask a judge to hold the US Food and Drug Administration in contempt if it fails to comply with a…
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…