No New Animal Lab Fights Back Against Skanska SLAPP Injunction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, February 1, 2016 Contact: Lauren Regan, Civil Liberties Defense Center, 541-687-9180 No New Animal Lab Fights Back Against Skanska SLAPP Injunction Multinational, multibillion dollar corporation, Skanska, attempts to chill grassroots...
Kansas appeals court blocks abortion law
Last week, in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt, a divided Kansas appeals court voted 7-7 to affirm a lower court’s decision to block a controversial Kansas law that essentially criminalized second trimester abortions for women in Kansas. The Kansas law was passed...
Know Your Rights (Arabic)
CLDC stands in solidarity with targeted people and communities by assisting them with protecting their Constitutional rights through any legal avenue feasible (federal or state recourse), providing KYR trainings to those communities as requested, and by sharing a KYR...
Federal appeals court finds police use of taser on nonviolent bystander to be unlawful
Last week, in Kent v Oakland County, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision finding that police officers could not be shielded from a civil rights lawsuit by a victim of excessive police force involving a taser. In the case, a local doctor had called...