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Emergency Lawsuit Filed by Indigenous Water Protectors Against MN Sheriff to Stop Police Blockade of Camp at Line 3
Major Free Speech Win by PCJF and CAIR: Court Rules Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law is Unconstitutional
Line 3 Letter: CPLL Challenges “Outrageous” Violations of Water Protectors’ First Amendment Rights Opposing Line 3
The Center for Protest Law and Litigation is demanding that police and government officials at the site of the Line 3 pipeline expansion in Aitkin County, MN and the City of Palisade immediately cease efforts to obstruct and stop an event scheduled…
Center for Protest Law & Litigation Challenges Officials’ “Outrageous” Violations of First Amendment Rights of Water Protectors Opposing Line 3
Demands Immediate Cessation of Denial of Access to Public Park and Campaign of Threats, Harassment and Retaliation; Challenges Conflict of Interest of Enbridge Corp. Funding Public Law Enforcement The Center for Protest Law and Litigation is demanding that police and…
PCJF and the Center for Protest Law and Litigation Demand Full Investigation into Police Collusion at U.S. Capitol Attack
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and the Center for Protest Law and Litigation are demanding a fully public investigation into the federal and local police planning and response to today’s events, and termination and prosecution of all officers and officials found…
In the Mercenaries’ Own Words: Documents Detail TigerSwan Infiltration of Standing Rock
Excerpt from The Intercept | Read the full article at here. The weekend before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, a secret private security initiative called “Operation Baratheon” was scheduled to begin. A PowerPoint presentation laid out the plan…
Protesters Were Supposed To Hear Warnings Before Federal Police Moved In. They Didn’t
PCJF’s Mara Verheyden-Hilliard spoke with NPR’s Morning Edition about the police clearing of Lafayette Park. As heard on NPR’s Morning Editionwith Dina Temple-RastonSept. 11, 2020 Federal police officers who cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas…
Long-Awaited Win for Water Protectors
Lafayette Square Was Just the Beginning: Trump and Barr Turn to the “Occupy Model” to Crush Protests Against Police Brutality
States Have Put 54 New Restrictions on Peaceful Protests Since Ferguson
Wash Post: U.S. Park Police Standards Imposed Through Litigation Violated by Lafayette Park Assault
Excerpt from The Washington Post | Read the full article here. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard said that if the police offensive was, as it appeared, an effort to clear a path for Trump, “presidential security does not give a pretext for wholesale…