Press Release After more than seven years of class action litigation, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund today is pleased to announce a victorious settlement…
Judge says attorneys worked to “protect future generations of protesters.” U.S. Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued final approval to an $8.25 million class action…
Reprinted from Washington City Paper On September 27, 2002, D.C. Police surrounded some 400 individuals in Pershing Park. Those individuals were rounded up without warning,…
Reprinted from Legal Times The District of Columbia will pay $8.25 million to settle a class action brought by protesters rounded up in mass arrests…
NY Times: ‘Inquiry Raises More Questions in Case of Arrests After ’02 Protest in Capital’ Retired federal judge Stanley Sporkin has issued an investigative report…
Reprinted from The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia said Monday it has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a…
Reprinted from Legal Times The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $13.7 million to settle a class action suit brought by protesters arrested during…
Reprinted from The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A police detective alleges that former Washington Police Chief Charles Ramsey, despite past denials, ordered mass arrests of…
Peaceful protestors targeted for wearing black The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) is pleased to announce a victorious settlement on behalf of eight people…
Chiefs Responsible for More Than 1,000 False Arrests The arrest of Harvard history professor Henry Louis Gates in his home in Cambridge sparked a nationwide…
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…