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 […]
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
Valentina Stackl, Senior Communications Specialist
Greenpeace USA and Protect the Protest
vstackl@greenpeace.org or (734) 276 6260
Oakland, CA— Last Thursday United States Magistrate Judge Kandis A. […]
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
In an […]
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
Spokane, WA […]
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 […]
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, OR—Yesterday the City of Eugene agreed to settle a federal civil rights […]
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
Eugene, OR—On Saturday, October 10th, CLDC and the Protect the Protest task […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2020
Contacts:
Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or lregan@cldc.org
Cooper Brinson, Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or cbrinson@cldc.org
CLDC Files Second Suit to Protect the Public from Police Violence
Eugene, OR — Today, attorneys with the Civil Liberties Defense Center filed their second federal […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2020
Contacts:
Marianne Dugan, CLDC Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or mdugan@cldc.org
Henry Houston, Plaintiff: (541)484-0519 or henry@eugeneweekly.com
CLDC Files Suit to Protect the Free Press from Police Violence
Eugene, OR — Today, CLDC attorneys filed suit in the U.S. Federal District Court in Eugene, alleging that the City of […]
The CLDC’s work on behalf of the Valve Turners continues this summer. On April 8, 2019, the Washington Court of Appeals ruled in Ken Ward’s favor and affirmed his right to present a climate necessity defense to a jury of his peers. Soon thereafter, the State of Washington sought […]
