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February 2024

Rising Tide Drowns Mountain Valley Pipeline SLAPP Suit

By |2024-02-24T19:44:31-08:00February 24th, 2024|Categories: News|

Christiansburg, Virginia

This morning, February 23, 2024, the Montgomery County Circuit Court ruled in favor of nonprofit organization Rising Tide North America, dismissing a SLAPP (SLAPP—Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation—meant to silence critics and dissent) lawsuit against them filed by oil pipeline corporation Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Today the court […]

October 2023

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Constitutionality of Local Park Rules in Eugene

By |2023-10-24T15:04:12-07:00October 24th, 2023|Categories: Cases, News|Tags: , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 24, 2023
Contact: Marianne Dugan, Senior Civil Attorney Director; Sarah Alvarez, Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org

Advocates for the Unhoused File Lawsuit
Challenging Constitutionality of Local Park Rules in Eugene, Oregon

 

In the face of an ongoing housing crisis in Oregon, activists have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the […]

August 2023

Andy Ngo Loses Lawsuit: Portland Jury Finds No Fault for Two Activists in Civil Trial

By |2023-08-11T08:31:50-07:00August 11th, 2023|Categories: Cases, News|Tags: , , , |

 

August 8, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Ngo Loses Lawsuit: Portland Jury Finds No Fault for Two Activists in Civil Trial

Portland, Oregon—After seven days of trial, a 12-person Multnomah County (Portland) jury found no fault against activists John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter, in […]

July 2023

Oregon Recording Law Overturned: What it means

By |2023-07-17T07:04:00-07:00July 17th, 2023|Categories: Articles, Know Your Rights, News|Tags: , , , |

Every summer, CLDC is honored to host future movement attorneys as part of our law clerk program. We believe lawyers have much to contribute to movements outside of the courtroom and hope their time with CLDC as clerks prepares them for that important work. As part of our clerk […]

June 2023

A Year Without Roe

By |2023-06-26T10:43:19-07:00June 23rd, 2023|Categories: Featured, News|Tags: , , , |

Every summer, CLDC is honored to host future movement attorneys as part of our law clerk program. This year our clerks are an impressive group. Many of them went to law school after years of movement involvement with the hopes of expanding their impact.

We invited B, a third-year law […]

Lawsuit Filed on Eve of One-Year Anniversary of Supreme Court Dobbs Ruling

By |2023-06-23T18:23:32-07:00June 23rd, 2023|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, News|Tags: , , , , , |

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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April 2023

20 Years Later, We STILL Have Your Back

By |2023-04-19T10:51:14-07:00April 19th, 2023|Categories: Featured, Fundraising, News|Tags: , , , , |

Having been an activist in high school and college, I went to law school because I wanted to be as useful as possible in order to save the planet and its inhabitants.  After a few years as an environmental lawyer suing the Forest Service and other governmental agencies, […]

February 2023

January 2023

Five Suggestions for When State Repression Comes to Town

By |2023-01-25T09:59:52-08:00January 25th, 2023|Categories: Featured, News, Resources, Security|Tags: , , , , |

Five Suggestions for When State Repression Comes to Town

CLDC has been providing movement aligned legal support to the campaigns and activists in the so called U.S. for over 20 years now.  In that time period, I have personally witnessed numerous waves of state repression targeting the […]

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