PCJF Challenges Unlawful Police Tactics, Sidewalk Arrests, Orange Netting Corral The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) has filed a federal lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the New York Police…
Reprinted from the Huffington Post NEW YORK — Three days after Occupy Wall Street celebrated its one-year anniversary with mass demonstrations and a slew of arrests, two protesters sued the city and several members of the NYPD, claiming they were…
License plate readers are getting set up at a brisk pace across the country. Reprinted from AlterNet In May, Utah lawmakers were surprised to learn that the US Drug Enforcement Agency had worked out a plan with local sheriffs to pack…
Reprinted from Wall Street on Parade August 15, 2012 According to Simon Chesterman, who has written extensively on surveillance, over the past four decades the number of Americans killed by international terrorists was about the same as the number killed by…
Reprinted from The Examiner System of mass surveillance and data warehousing on law-abiding persons and citizens prompts privacy rights campaign Hundreds of drones descended on Las Vegas this week, with their makers trying to overcome the stigma of the word “drone,” are showing off their role…
Homeland Security releases third round of documents to PCJF Last Updated: July 31, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has obtained a third round of documents from the Department of Homeland Security in response to our…
Reprinted from The Examiner The District’s top lawyer on Wednesday said Mayor Vincent Gray’s push to make public document disclosure laws more favorable to the government had nothing to do with the political scandals that have rocked the city for his 18-month tenure.…
Ruling clears the way for a class-action lawsuit by the 700 protesters arrested Reprinted from The Guardian A federal judge has ruled that the NYPD failed to sufficiently warn Occupy Wall Street protesters against walking on the roadway of the Brooklyn bridge in October, resulting…
Reprinted from The New York Times A federal judge ruled Thursday that the police did not adequately warn Occupy Wall Street protesters against walking on the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge before arresting about 700 of them in October. The ruling, by Judge…
Reprinted from Gothamist Last fall, more than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested after they marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Protesters sued the city, claiming that police lured them onto the roadway of the bridge, leading them there as an excuse to arrest…
In an opinion issued late today, US District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that New York Police Department officers are not entitled to qualified immunity from the arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011 at the start of the…
Reprinted from The Associated Press A judge gave the green light Thursday to a lawsuit against police officers in the arrests of 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters last year on the Brooklyn Bridge, but he dismissed the city and its top…