The Necessity of the Necessity Defense

The Necessity of the Necessity Defense

Last May, I watched the news reports about the girl who attached herself to the anchor chain of Shell’s Arctic Challenger as it sat in the Bellingham Bay—preparing to head to the Arctic to be part of Shell’s plan to drill for oil there, and to surely...
Fighting corporate SLAPPs, from the streets to the courtroom

Fighting corporate SLAPPs, from the streets to the courtroom

It’s been several months since a Washington State District Court granted four anti-harassment orders against me from Chris Toher, Lew Guerrette, Dave Harrison, and James McReynolds. Now we are finally approaching the culmination of the appeal of those orders,...
Big News: We’ve hired two new associate attorneys

Big News: We’ve hired two new associate attorneys

Since 2003 the Civil Liberties Defense Center has been defending activists involved in progressive social change. In just 12 years we have represented more than 2,000 activists across the country and trained countless more through our “Know Your Rights”...

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