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Court Condemns D.C. Roadblocks

Police Action in ’08 Ruled Unconstitutional Reprinted from The Washington Post A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that checkpoints set up by District police in neighborhoods beset by violence are unconstitutional, effectively ending a crime-fighting tactic that officials say was…

Appeals court disallows D.C. police checkpoints

A U.S. appeals court has slapped the District of Columbia with a restraining order forbidding Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier from erecting any more police barricades to prevent violence.

Court Rules D.C. Checkpoints Are Unconstitutional

Major Victory for Civil Rights! The following press release was just sent out explaining the details and political importance of the checkpoints case: In an unanimous and strongly worded ruling, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals…

Appeals court rejects DC police checkpoints

Reprinted from The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court said Friday that police checkpoints in a crime-plagued Washington neighborhood are unconstitutional and ordered a lower court to reconsider its refusal to block the program. In June 2008,…

PCJF Files FOIA Request After Police Killing in Trinidad

Demands Public Disclosure of Park Police/FBI/MPD Operation In response to reports that a resident of the District was shot in the back and killed last night in the Trinidad neighborhood by undercover federal law enforcement agents, the Partnership for Civil…

PCJF files Freedom of Information Act Demand About Imprisonment, Interrogation, and Sudden Death of Bush’s ‘Smoking Gun’ Witness

Detainee’s statements derived under torture used to sell the Iraq invasion The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) yesterday with the CIA, Department of Defense, Department of State and other agencies to…

PCJF Demands Information About Imprisonment, Interrogation, and Death of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi

Detainee’s statements derived under torture used to sell the Iraq invasion The PCJF demanded today information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of…

Lawyer Argues Against D.C. Checkpoints

"It is beyond the ordinary from anything we have seen this department do and beyond the ordinary of anything we have seen the Supreme Court recognize," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard.

Appeals Court Considers DC vehicle Checkpoints

Reprinted from The Associated Press The Partnership for Civil Justice sued the city in June after police began stopping cars and screening drivers and their passengers in the Trinidad neighborhood following a spike in shootings. The lawsuit was filed on…

Group Appeals Ruling on Police Checkpoints

In October, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon refused to grant an injunction and strongly endorsed the checkpoints. The Partnership for Civil Justice appealed.

Report on U.S. Court of Appeals Hearing on D.C. Checkpoint Appeal

A civil rights lawyer arguing against a D.C. anti-crime measure in which police barricade neighborhoods and stop drivers seemed to find a receptive audience today at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

D.C. Circuit Appellate Brief Filed Opposing Unconstitutional Police Checkpoint Program

The Partnership for Civil Justice, a Washington DC-based civil rights and legal organization, has filed an opening appellate brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in opposition to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s controversial “Neighborhood Safety Zone” roadblock/checkpoint seizure…