Occupy (Sterling) – Complaint 2012
The lawsuit, Sterling, et al. v. City of New York, et.al., Case No. 12-CV-7086 seeks to end the New York City police tactics of arresting people…
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PCJF Obtains More Heavily Redacted Documents on OWS from Homeland Security
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…
Federal Judge Rules that Brooklyn Bridge Class Action Lawsuit Can Proceed
In an opinion issued late today, US District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that New York Police Department officers are not entitled to qualified immunity from…
Brooklyn Bridge (Garcia) – First Opinion and Order 2012
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that NYPD officers were not entitled to qualified immunity in the case of Garcia v. Bloomberg. The case, in…
Brookfield E-Mailed Feds 48 Hours Before Eviction Of Zuccotti
Reprinted from The Gothamist According to 77 pages of documents released by the U.S. Park Police in response to a FOIA request, the owner of Zuccotti…
5 Freedom-Killing Tactics Police Will Use to Crack Down on Protests in 2012
Many cities and police forces are eyeing new ways to crack down on protesters Reprinted from AlterNet The First Amendment right to assemble and protest…
PCJF Opposes Blatantly Unconstitutional Anti-Protest Law
Executive Director to Testify at D.C. Council Hearing Today Opposing Bill 19-645: Criminal Code Amendments Act of 2012 that targets demonstrators and the Occupy movement…
Control of the Mall’s Union Square changes hands
Reprinted from Washington Post Union Square, the photogenic parcel of the Mall that the National Park Service had envisioned as a First Amendment demonstration space,…
Occupy Wall Street – Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrests
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund filed the class action lawsuit over the mass trap and arrest of 700 peaceful Occupy protestors on the Brooklyn Bridge. The lawsuit prevailed in the District Court and again at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which then took the unusual procedural step of vacating its opinion and reversing itself.
Brooklyn Bridge (Garcia) – Second Amended Complaint 2011
Plaintiffs represented by the PCJF in Garcia v. Bloomberg argue that NYPD’s mass arrest of Occupy protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2011 was unconstitutional.…
U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn’t Protecting Occupy Protesters’ Rights
Reprinted from Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to…
Civil Rights Lawyers Move to Fight Occupy Evictions Nationwide
Lawyers say authorities are citing obscure codes as pretexts for crackdowns Reprinted from The Guardian | December 1, 2011 Civil rights lawyers are ramping up their…