Reprinted from Washington Examiner A federal judge has called for an investigation into the D.C. police department after officials there destroyed key evidence related to a controversial mass arrest of anti-globalization protesters in 2002. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said Wednesday…
Reprinted from The Washington Post A federal judge chastised D.C. government lawyers Wednesday for how they have defended lawsuits brought by nearly 400 people arrested during a 2002 protest in downtown Washington. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said at…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…