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January 2021

The New Water Wars: Big Timber, Bottled Water, and Corporate Law Firms vs. the People of Weed

By |2021-01-26T15:04:25-08:00January 26th, 2021|Categories: Articles, Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 26, 2021

Contacts:

Lauren Regan, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney
Civil Liberties Defense Center
info@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810

Bruce Shoemaker, Media Liaison
Water for Citizens of Weed California
bshoe@bitstream.net or (612) 770-9697

 

The New Water Wars: Big Timber, Bottled Water, and Corporate Law Firms vs. the People of Weed

In an […]

Victims of Eugene Police Violence Push City to Enact Meaningful Change

By |2022-02-24T16:18:51-08:00January 12th, 2021|Categories: Current Cases, Featured, News, Protest|Tags: , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 12, 2021

Contacts:

Erin Grady, Plaintiff: (303) 905-8601 or pennyroyale07@gmail.com

Tyler Hendry, Plaintiff: dhg.heroic@gmail.com

Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org

Victims of Eugene Police Violence Push City to Enact Meaningful Change

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CLDC Response to White House “Memorandum on Inadmissibility of Persons Affiliated with Antifa Based on Organized Criminal Activity”

By |2021-01-06T12:46:28-08:00January 6th, 2021|Categories: Articles, Featured, News|Tags: , , , |

Yesterday, on January 5, 2021, the Trump regime issued a “memorandum” claiming immigrants “affiliated with antifa” should be deemed to be members of a terrorist organization and banned from immigrating into the United States.

This memo was issued at the same time the Trump administration fights backlash for trying to coerce […]

Civil Liberties Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of Washington State Minister

By |2021-01-11T13:58:16-08:00January 5th, 2021|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2021

Contacts:

Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Director and Senior Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org

Ravisha Kumar, National Lawyers Guild Seattle Chapter President
nationallawyersguildseattle@gmail.com

 

Civil Liberties Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of Washington State Minister: Argue that Rev. Taylor was morally compelled to act to protect the climate

Spokane, WA […]

December 2020

CLDC Calls for Charges Leveled at Sexual Assault Survivor to be Dropped by Eugene Police

By |2020-12-15T09:37:23-08:00December 14th, 2020|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , |

Today CLDC resolved one of our activist cases with a sentence of discharge (no punishment) for a woman who was acting as an ally and accompanied a non-binary person who was sexually assaulted by an on-duty cop, Christopher Drumm, with the Eugene Police Department.

The victim had called 911 for police […]

November 2020

SCOTUS Vacates Two Fifth Circuit Decisions, Affirms First Amendment Protections, Civil Rights

By |2020-11-11T10:19:50-08:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Featured, News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

Last week the Supreme Court vacated two horrible decisions from the Fifth Circuit. Last year, the Fifth Circuit held that a civil rights protester can be held liable for a peaceful protest in which an unidentified person throws a rock, but identified government agents cannot be held liable for making […]

October 2020

Eugene Police Department Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit Brought by Journalist at Eugene Weekly

By |2020-11-17T09:24:52-08:00October 23rd, 2020|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 23, 2020

Contacts:

Marianne Dugan, CLDC Senior Staff Attorney
Cooper Brinson, CLDC Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org

Henry Houston
(541) 735-6216 or henry@eugeneweekly.com

 

Eugene Police Department Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit Brought by Journalist at Eugene Weekly

Eugene, OR—Yesterday the City of Eugene agreed to settle a federal civil rights […]

CLDC Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Florida Community Advocate SLAPPed by Mining Company

By |2020-10-12T12:44:29-07:00October 12th, 2020|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 12, 2020

Contacts:

Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Director & Protect the Protest Legal Coordinator
Rebecca Chapman, CLDC Staff Attorney

(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org

 

CLDC Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Florida Community Advocate SLAPPed by Mining Company

Eugene, OR—On Saturday, October 10th, CLDC and the Protect the Protest task […]

September 2020

August 2020

Trump’s Push to Privatize the USPS is a Direct Threat to Democracy

By |2020-08-18T18:14:02-07:00August 18th, 2020|Categories: Articles, Featured, News|Tags: , |

My maternal grandfather was born in 1914 and served in the Army during World War II. When he returned from the war in 1944, he took a job with the U.S. Postal Service as a “mailman.” He worked as a letter carrier, eventually becoming a supervisor, and was an active […]

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