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D.C. to drop controversial checkpoints

Posted in Press Coverage · August 29, 2010 8:00 PM
The D.C. government has agreed not to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court ruling that checkpoints set up by District police in neighborhoods beset by violence are unconstitutional.

D.C. to Settle Controversial Neighborhood Checkpoint Suit

Posted in Press Coverage · August 26, 2010 8:00 PM
Three residents who sued the District over the city's controversial neighborhood checkpoint program are expected to receive $3,500 each to settle claims that the police initiative violated constitutional rights, according to court papers filed Thursday.

D.C. quietly folds up police checkpoint program

Posted in Press Coverage · November 17, 2009 7:00 PM
Remember all the controversy over military checkpoints in the District neighborhood of Trinidad? D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier set up roadblocks there in the summer of 2008 in an effort to combat crime in the Northeast neighborhood.

Appeals court disallows D.C. police checkpoints

Posted in Press Coverage · July 11, 2009 8:00 PM
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.

Court Condemns D.C. Roadblocks

Posted in Press Coverage · July 10, 2009 8:00 PM
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that checkpoints set up by District police in neighborhoods beset by violence are unconstitutional, effectively ending a crime-fighting tactic that officials say was used in only the most dire circumstances to protect residents.

Appeals court rejects DC police checkpoints

Posted in Press Coverage · July 10, 2009 8:00 PM

Court: D.C.'s Trinidad checkpoints not legal

Posted in Press Coverage · July 10, 2009 8:00 PM
A federal appeals court Friday declared unconstitutional a controversial police checkpoint program used to cordon off a crime-ridden D.C. neighborhood last year. The unanimous 14-page opinion of a three-judge panel of the U.

Lawyer Argues Against D.C. Checkpoints

Posted in Press Coverage · May 08, 2009 8:00 PM
Police checkpoints that cordoned off a crime-plagued D.C. neighborhood last year were an "extraordinary" measure that "flies in the face" of prior court rulings and violates the Constitution, a lawyer for plaintiffs opposed to the barriers told a federal appeals court Friday.

Appeals Court Considers DC vehicle Checkpoints

Posted in Press Coverage · May 08, 2009 8:00 PM
A civil liberties group argued Friday that a federal judge was wrong when he refused to block the District of Columbia police department's vehicle checkpoint program, saying the initiative is an invasion of privacy.

Report on U.S. Court of Appeals Hearing on D.C. Checkpoint Appeal

Posted in Press Coverage · May 07, 2009 8:00 PM
The Legal Times just released the following report of today's U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit oral argument about the D.C. military-style checkpoint program:

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