National Park Service Plan to Close Dupont Circle During Pride Met With Opposition
Excerpt from the Advocate. Read the full article here. “Meanwhile, a watchdog group, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, announced on Tuesday that it has…
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PCJF Demands Records On Trump Admin’s Dupont Circle Pride Ban
FOIAs Require Disclosure of Communications and Other Information Related to Closure and Subsequent Recission The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) today filed Freedom of…
The Administration That Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters Is Trying to Jail a Guy Over a Protest Banner
PCJF/CPLL Executive Director, Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, spoke with POLITICO about the DOJ’s targeting nonviolent protestors for prosecution: “There are those in higher levels of law enforcement…
Lawsuit Results in Major Free Speech and Due Process Victory Against UC Santa Cruz
The Center for Protest Law & Litigation at the PCJF, co-counsel Thomas Seabaugh, and the ACLU Foundation of Northern California have successfully resolved litigation arising…
Judge Orders UC Santa Cruz to Seal and Destroy information it Improperly Seized from Anti-Genocide Student Protestor’s Phone
In an important victory for civil liberties and defense of anti-genocide protestors, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Erika Ziegenhorn ruled that UC Santa Cruz…
Protect the Protest Statement on Energy Transfer v Greenpeace International et al SLAPP Verdict
“The verdict against Greenpeace is a threat to the fundamental right to free speech & protest.” The Protect the Protest Coalition, of which we are…
An Open Letter from Civil Rights Groups to the American People
Our Rights Are at Stake. We Will Not Be Silenced. In America, our government cannot do whatever it wants. And we, the people, have a…
PCJF Statement on the verdict against Greenpeace
This week’s verdict against Greenpeace in the lawsuit brought by oil giant Energy Transfer Partners is a profound attack on First Amendment rights and the…
Empire Files Interviews Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction
Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and constitutional lawyer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard speaks with Empire Files host Abby Martin about the detention and attempt to deport U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestine speech.
PCJF Statement on Mahmoud Khalil’s Unlawful Arrest and Abduction
The Trump Administration is pursuing an unconstitutional witch hunt, abusing government authority in order to target, punish and silence viewpoints that it ideologically opposes.
After student protester sued UC Santa Cruz, campus police seized her phone
Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle. Read the full article here. A UC Santa Cruz student and pro-Palestinian activist whose cell phone was seized by…
Trump says he wants to protect free speech. Advocates say he’s undermining it.
In what President Donald Trump says is a move to protect the rule of law and free speech advocates see as an attack on it, the White House is promising tougher punishments for vandalizing public monuments, statues and religious displays.