Reprinted from NBC News In the fall of 2011, a key Boston police counterterror intelligence unit — funded with millions of dollars in U.S. homeland security grants — was closely monitoring anti-Wall Street demonstrations, including tracking the Facebook pages and websites…
Obama administration appealed against ruling that emergency contraception should be available to women of all ages Reprinted from The Guardian A federal judge has denied an appeal by the US government to an order granting the unrestricted access of emergency contraception…
Reprinted from The New York Times | May 5, 2013 A federal judge on Friday stepped up his criticism of the Obama administration, accusing the Justice Department of making “frivolous” and “silly” arguments in its attempt to delay making the morning-after emergency contraceptive…
Today, U.S. District Court Judge Edward R. Korman heard arguments regarding the Obama administration’s Motion to Stay his Order from April 5, 2013, requiring that emergency contraception be made available without age and point-of-sale restrictions. Over a two-hour period, Judge…
Reprinted from The Washington Times One of the attorneys who successfully sued to make a type of emergency contraception available without age restrictions is crying foul over the Obama administration’s 11th-hour decision to appeal the ruling. Andrea Costello, of the Partnership…
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…