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…
Reprint By Zoe Tillman, Legal Times Blog Criticizing the D.C. Office of the Attorney General’s “dilatory, wasteful action,” U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth published an opinion yesterday blasting city attorneys for violating a discovery order. According to the opinion, Lamberth…
Reprinted from The Final Call The one-year anniversary of the Occupy Movement came, went, and left a lawsuit in its wake. There were more than 180 arrests in mid-September as demonstrators took to streets in New York City in efforts to…
Reprinted from New York Times Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, the police commander sued in July for pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters, has been sued again. On Thursday, two people, who claim that their rights were violated when officers under Inspector…
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…