Press Release After more than seven years of class action litigation, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund today is pleased to announce a victorious settlement on behalf of a class of nearly 400 persons who were arrested in Pershing Park…
Judge says attorneys worked to “protect future generations of protesters.” U.S. Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued final approval to an $8.25 million class action settlement of an eight-year-long and hard-fought litigation battle over the mass arrests of nearly 400…
Reprinted from Washington City Paper On September 27, 2002, D.C. Police surrounded some 400 individuals in Pershing Park. Those individuals were rounded up without warning, arrested, and transferred to the police academy where they were hogtied for hours [See our…
Reprinted from Legal Times The District of Columbia will pay $8.25 million to settle a class action brought by protesters rounded up in mass arrests during the 2002 Pershing Park demonstrations. Plaintiffs’ lawyers today announced an agreement in principle with…
NY Times: ‘Inquiry Raises More Questions in Case of Arrests After ’02 Protest in Capital’ Retired federal judge Stanley Sporkin has issued an investigative report on the disappearance of evidence related to the false mass arrests at the September 2002…
Reprinted from The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia said Monday it has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a lawsuit by protesters arrested during demonstrations nine years ago. The preliminary agreement includes a maximum…
Reprinted from Legal Times The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $13.7 million to settle a class action suit brought by protesters arrested during a demonstration in 2000, lawyers in the case announced at court today. Lawyers for the…
Reprinted from The Washington Post Remember all the controversy over military checkpoints in the District neighborhood of Trinidad? D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier set up roadblocks there in the summer of 2008 in an effort to combat crime in…
Detective’s affidavit says he heard Ramsey give the order in 2002 Reprinted from The Washington Post A D.C. police detective says he overheard then-Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey order a controversial mass arrest during a demonstration in downtown Washington seven…
Reprinted from The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A police detective alleges that former Washington Police Chief Charles Ramsey, despite past denials, ordered mass arrests of hundreds of demonstrators who were protesting annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary…
Press release Late yesterday, the D.C. Police Department announced that the Chief of Police was rescinding the so-called “Neighborhood Safety Zone” program. Having had its program declared unconstitutional at the U.S. Court of Appeals, and then subsequently suggesting for months…
Peaceful protestors targeted for wearing black The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) is pleased to announce a victorious settlement on behalf of eight people who were illegally arrested following April 20, 2002 lawful anti-war and IMF/World Bank protests. In…