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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Detainee’s statements derived under torture used to sell the Iraq invasion The PCJF demanded today information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the…
"It is beyond the ordinary from anything we have seen this department do and beyond the ordinary of anything we have seen the Supreme Court recognize," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard.
Reprinted from The Associated Press The Partnership for Civil Justice sued the city in June after police began stopping cars and screening drivers and their…
In October, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon refused to grant an injunction and strongly endorsed the checkpoints. The Partnership for Civil Justice appealed.
A civil rights lawyer arguing against a D.C. anti-crime measure in which police barricade neighborhoods and stop drivers seemed to find a receptive audience today at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The Partnership for Civil Justice, a Washington DC-based civil rights and legal organization, has filed an opening appellate brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of…
Feature by PCJF co-founder Mara Verheyden-Hilliard Reprinted from The Washington Post In June, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, his attorney general and the D.C. police announced…