Citing Police Trap, Protesters File Suit
Reprinted from New York Times October 4, 2011 A group of people arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests last…
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Lawsuit Filed Over Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrest
Reprinted from Gawker, By Lauri Apple The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has filed a federal class action lawsuit against New York…
Feds must find missing evidence in Pershing Park case
Reprinted from Washington Examiner Here’s something you don’t see every day: D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department has asked the FBI to investigate it. In a recent filing…
Pershing Park (Barham) – Class Action Settlement Monitoring Report 2011
The PCJF submitted the second report tracking D.C.’s implementation of policies agreed to in the Barham v. Ramsey settlement related to Pershing Park. In the…
D.C. gov’t rescinds unconstitutional postering rule
Years of litigation lead to free speech victory In a free speech victory for grassroots activists in Washington, D.C., the DC government has been forced…
Oscar Grant (Spalding) – Civil Rights Class Action Complaint 2011
Protesters who were unlawfully detained and arrested at a demonstration in Oakland, California, where they were protesting the killing of Oscar Grant, filed a class…
Top DC police officials put under oath in Pershing Park case over evidence loss and destruction
Federal court hearings on obstruction of justice allegations After eight years of litigation on behalf of the nearly 400 people who were arrested illegally in…
U.S. Federal Judge Lauds “Historic” Settlement
Court Approval Given for Protest Arrest Class Action Resolution Issuing final approval to a class action settlement, U.S. Federal Judge Paul Friedman described the terms…
Pershing Park (Barham) – D.C. Joint Memo in Support of Settlement 2010
Read MorePershing Park (Barham) – D.C. Joint Memo in Support of Settlement 2010Victory in major class-action protest impact litigation
Class action impact litigation brought by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund on behalf of more than 1000 people including demonstrators, journalists, tourists and passersby…
D.C. to pay $8.25 million to settle suit over ’02 mass arrests
Reprinted from The Washington Post The D.C. government and a nonprofit civil rights organization have settled a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of protesters and…
April 2000 IMF Mass False Arrests
Class action impact litigation brought by the PCJF on behalf of more than 700 people, including demonstrators, journalists, tourists and passersby led to major and substantive reform in police policies and practices in the handling of mass demonstrations in Washington, D.C. The $13.7 million settlement was the then-largest protest settlement in the history of the U.S.
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