The PCJF and its Center for Protest Law & Litigation, filed a federal lawsuit against the District of Columbia challenging MPD's “repressive and violent tactics including the authorized indiscriminate use of ‘less lethal’ projectile weapons against peaceful protestors and bystanders."
Three protesters are suing the Metropolitan Police Department over its alleged use of non-lethal weapons and projectiles like stinger grenades, rubber bullets, and flash bang devices against racial justice protesters in the summer of 2020, the DCist reports.
The Washington Post covers PCJF's lawsuit against MPD for retaliating against racial justice protestors with mass police violence.
The PCJF filed a lawsuit against D.C. MPD to force disclosure of records under D.C.’s Freedom of Information Act, involving the department's violent response to racial justice demonstrations against police misconduct throughout 2020.
A racial justice protestor was falsely arrested at a demonstration protesting the murder of Alexis Wilson by Dolton Illinois police.
Today, a Minnesota court issued a ruling protecting an Indigenous-led camp of Line 3 opponents from Hubbard County’s unlawful blockades and targeted harassment.
The PCJF, along with EarthRights International, and local counsel Jason Steck, won a major victory in support of water protectors, with a court ruling that in 2021, the Hubbard County Sheriff unlawfully blockaded access to a camp serving as a home for Indigenous-led organizing and religious activities.
CPLL and counsel Melinda Power filed a lawsuit against the Dolton Police Department in Illinois for illegally arresting a protestor who called police "fucking pig."
The Center for Protest Law & Litigation and counsel Melinda Power of Chicago’s West Town Law Office filed lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the…
The legal team representing the Water Protectors, who were violently attacked by police while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, filed an appeal in…
The legal team representing the Water Protectors, who were violently attacked by police while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, filed an appeal in…
The legal team representing the Water Protectors, who were violently attacked by police while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, filed this appeal in…