“While peaceful protests were happening across the world, the California Highway Patrol and the District Attorney have jailed the San Francisco protestors on trumped up felony conspiracy charges to preemptively punish them for their advocacy by holding them in jail. The overcharging by the CHP is an abusive attempt to silence those who are demanding a ceasefire and an end to the U.S. government’s unconditional support for the genocide and famine that Israel is inflicting on Gaza   We demand the peace activists be immediately released on their own recognizance, and we will continue to defend their right to speak out against genocide.”

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), and its Center for Protest Law & Litigation, welcomes Rachel Lederman as Senior Counsel to lead its new West Coast office based in Oakland, Calif.

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund demands charges be dropped immediately. PCJF also demands that there be an independent community investigation into the command officials who planned and executed this assault and that there be disciplinary action taken against them.

Photo by Joe Rivano Barros

Lawsuit Challenges D.C. MPD’s December 12, 2020, Attack on Peaceful BLM Demonstrators While Proud Boys Were Allowed to Maraud Throughout D.C.

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), and its Center for Protest Law & Litigation, filed a federal lawsuit against the District of Columbia challenging the Metropolitan Police Department’s “repressive and violent tactics including the authorized indiscriminate use of ‘less lethal’ projectile weapons against peaceful protestors and bystanders, gratuitously and without notice or warning and in order to intentionally retaliate against and inflict pain upon protestors challenging policing in our society.”

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) and its project, the Center for Protest Law & Litigation (CPLL), filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to force disclosure of records under D.C.’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) involving the DC Metropolitan Police Department’s violent response to racial justice demonstrations against police misconduct throughout 2020.

The Center for Protest Law and Litigation files a federal lawsuit against Dolton Police Department for violating protestor’s constitutional rights.

View this guide on federal employees’ right to protest.

The Center for Protest Law and Litigation joined the Climate Defense Project, Honor the Earth, the Climate Disobedience Center, and CodePink as Amici Curiae in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that the District Court violated Ms. Reznicek’s First Amendment rights by imposing the terrorism enhancement.