FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2023
Contact: Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Lawsuit Filed on Eve of One-Year Anniversary of Supreme Court Dobbs Ruling:
Springfield Police Department Shows Pattern of Violence Towards First Amendment Activities
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Last week we had an important victory for Indigenous sovereignty in Anishinaabe territory, so-called northern Minnesota. Claire Glenn, the attorney fellow for the Line 3 Defense Project of the Civil Liberties Defense Center and Water Protector Legal Collective, won dismissal of the criminal charges for […]
ANISHINAABE WATER PROTECTORS’ CASES DISMISSED ON INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY GROUNDS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 6, 2022
Contact:
Claire Glenn, Attorney-Fellow for the Line 3 Legal Defense Project
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Three Indigenous Water Protectors have had their criminal […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1, 2022
Contact:
Sarah Alvarez, Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Jury Unable to Convict Stop the Sweeps Advocate for Asking Cops to Adhere to the Law: Judge declares mistrial after jury unable to come to a unanimous verdict
Eugene, Oregon—Nicholas Hollows, a Eugene resident […]
The Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) and the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) are excited to announce a new partnership to boost legal representation capacity for Water Protectors who were arrested while defending Anishinaabe lands, the upper Mississippi watershed, and our […]
Heavy-handed police responses to protests in the United States (and around the world) are nothing new. While horrifically graphic videos and images of police brutality taken by everyday people are now circulated across the Internet in the blink of an eye, the institution of police departments in this country […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 19, 2021
Contacts: Marianne Dugan or Lauren Regan, Senior Staff Attorneys
541-687-9490
info@cldc.org
Lane County, Oregon – In light of new evidence, on August 19, 2021, the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) and Black Unity moved to amend their […]
100 years ago this week, on May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, from land and air. The white mob destroyed more than 35 square […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 24, 2021
Contacts:
Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney
Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Eureka, CA — Today CLDC attorneys representing journalist Mike Gamms […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 8, 2021
Contact: Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org
Eugene, OR —Today, the Civil Liberties Defense Center filed a federal civil rights lawsuit […]
