Brooklyn Bridge (Garcia) – U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit Ruling 2014
The Second Circuit denied NYPD’s attempts to claim qualified immunity in the false arrest of members of the Occupy Wall Street movement on the Brooklyn…
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Huffington Post: Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrest Lawsuit Can Proceed, Appeals Court Rules
Reprinted from The Huffington Post NEW YORK — Hundreds of people arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street protests…
Fusion Centers Approached 2011 Black Friday Consumer Boycott Like a Terrorist Threat
Counter-terrorism officials partner with corporate retail trade association The documents reveal that Fusion Centers and their personnel even conflate their anti-terrorism mission with a need…
National police chiefs collaborated with counter-terrorism Fusion Center targeting peaceful protest
First order of business for police chiefs’ intelligence-sharing subcommittee: Occupy The documents reveal that the police chiefs of major U.S. cities created an “Emerging Issues”…
MPD Asks DHS for Intel Products on Occupy
The PCJF obtained FOIA documents exposing D.C.’s MPD reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for intelligence information on the Occupy Movement in 2011.…
MPD and Council of Shopping Centers Report on OWS Black Friday Boycott
The PCJF obtained FOIA documents revealing that D.C.’s MPD distributed a report by the Council of Shopping Centers regarding the “threat” posed by Occupy Wall…
Tables turn against prosecutor in Mike Brown case
Community activists and civil rights organizations have filed a petition Jan. 15 with the Missouri State Circuit Court to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate…
News 10 ABC: Feinstein to review surveillance programs, but critics don’t expect much to change
Reprinted from News 10 ABC WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a staunch defender of President Barack Obama’s surveillance programs, plans to take a critical look at…
NPR: Judge Reluctantly Approves Government Plan For Morning-After Pill
Reprinted from NPR An obviously unhappy Judge Edward Korman has approved the Obama administration’s proposal to make just one formulation of the morning-after birth control pill…
Plan B (Tummino) – Court Memorandum 2013
In Tummino v. Hamburg, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York rejected FDA limits on selling Plan B contraception. Click to…
Obama Administration Announces it is Dropping Legal Fight to Keep Morning-After Pill from Women in U.S.
Attorneys and Plaintiffs Speak Out In response to a battle for over a decade to eliminate all restrictions on access to the Morning-After Pill, the…
A watershed moment in the fight for women’s reproductive rights
PCJF: A long legal battle enters a new stage Obama Administration Says it is Dropping Legal Fight to Keep Morning-After Pill from Women in United…