Journalists covering Cuba were on U.S. payroll
PCJF lawsuit against BBG seeks key documents on covert domestic propaganda operation The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) filed a lawsuit on Sept. 9,…
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Pershing Park Runaround: District owes answers about city lawyers’ alleged misconduct
Reprinted from The Washington Post The August 6 Washington Post editorial on the mass arrests of peaceful protestors in Washington, D.C. in 2002 echoes Federal…
Federal Judge to D.C.: ‘There will be significant prices to pay’
Reprinted from Legal Times U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan blasted the District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office at a hearing earlier this week, calling the…
Federal judge blasts D.C. Attorney General’s Office for concealment of evidence
Judge: ‘Case appears to be civil counterpart of Ted Stevens case’ A U.S. federal judge called for an investigation into the conduct of the Washington,…
Federal judge wants probe of missing police records
Reprinted from Washington Examiner A federal judge has called for an investigation into the D.C. police department after officials there destroyed key evidence related to…
U.S. Judge Blasts D.C.’s Handling of Protest Cases
Reprinted from The Washington Post A federal judge chastised D.C. government lawyers Wednesday for how they have defended lawsuits brought by nearly 400 people arrested…
Court Condemns D.C. Roadblocks
Police Action in ’08 Ruled Unconstitutional Reprinted from The Washington Post A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that checkpoints set up by District police in…
Appeals court disallows D.C. police checkpoints
A U.S. appeals court has slapped the District of Columbia with a restraining order forbidding Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier from erecting any more police barricades to prevent violence.
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Major Victory for Civil Rights! The following press release was just sent out explaining the details and political importance of the checkpoints case: In an…
Appeals court rejects DC police checkpoints
Reprinted from The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court said Friday that police checkpoints in a crime-plagued Washington neighborhood are unconstitutional and…
PCJF Files FOIA Request After Police Killing in Trinidad
Demands Public Disclosure of Park Police/FBI/MPD Operation In response to reports that a resident of the District was shot in the back and killed last…
PCJF files Freedom of Information Act Demand About Imprisonment, Interrogation, and Sudden Death of Bush’s ‘Smoking Gun’ Witness
Detainee’s statements derived under torture used to sell the Iraq invasion The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) filed a Freedom of Information Act request…