Legal Times: Federal Judge Slams D.C. Lawyers for ‘Orwellian’ Worldview
Reprint By Zoe Tillman, Legal Times Blog Criticizing the D.C. Office of the Attorney General’s “dilatory, wasteful action,” U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth published…
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Occupy Anniversary: Lawsuit in Lieu of Birthday Cake
Reprinted from The Final Call The one-year anniversary of the Occupy Movement came, went, and left a lawsuit in its wake. There were more than 180…
Commander Who Pepper-Sprayed Protesters Is Sued Again
Reprinted from New York Times Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, the police commander sued in July for pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters, has been sued again.…
New Federal Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD for Occupy Arrests
PCJF Challenges Unlawful Police Tactics, Sidewalk Arrests, Orange Netting Corral The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) has filed a federal lawsuit today in the…
Occupy Wall Street Lawsuit Alleging False Arrests Names Ray Kelly, Anthony Bologna And NYC
Reprinted from the Huffington Post NEW YORK — Three days after Occupy Wall Street celebrated its one-year anniversary with mass demonstrations and a slew of…
How Your Movements Are Being Tracked, Probably Without Your Knowledge
License plate readers are getting set up at a brisk pace across the country. Reprinted from AlterNet In May, Utah lawmakers were surprised to learn that…
The Disappearing Line Between Surveillance and Social Control
Reprinted from Wall Street on Parade August 15, 2012 According to Simon Chesterman, who has written extensively on surveillance, over the past four decades the number…
One city under hundreds of drones, One nation under surveillance
Reprinted from The Examiner System of mass surveillance and data warehousing on law-abiding persons and citizens prompts privacy rights campaign Hundreds of drones descended on Las Vegas this week, with…
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…
Gray presses ahead with open records changes
Reprinted from The Examiner The District’s top lawyer on Wednesday said Mayor Vincent Gray’s push to make public document disclosure laws more favorable to the government had…
Occupy Wall Street protesters win legal victory in Brooklyn bridge arrests
Ruling clears the way for a class-action lawsuit by the 700 protesters arrested Reprinted from The Guardian A federal judge has ruled that the NYPD failed to sufficiently…
Judge Rules Against Police in Brooklyn Bridge Arrests
Reprinted from The New York Times A federal judge ruled Thursday that the police did not adequately warn Occupy Wall Street protesters against walking on the…