Victims of Eugene Police Violence Push City to Enact Meaningful Change
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 [...]
As Law Enforcement Attempts to SLAPP Detroit Will Breathe, CLDC Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of DWB Activists
The summer of 2020 brought the largest and most sustained uprising this country has ever seen. In cities from coast to coast, galvanized by George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers, people organized, acted, and [...]
CLDC Calls for Charges Leveled at Sexual Assault Survivor to be Dropped by Eugene Police
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 [...]
SCOTUS Vacates Two Fifth Circuit Decisions, Affirms First Amendment Protections, Civil Rights
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 [...]
CLDC Fighting Corporate-Fueled Legal Persecution of Human Rights Lawyer
Fossil fuel giant Chevron vows to “demonize” victorious human rights lawyer For several years now, human rights attorney Steven Donziger has [...]
CLDC Files Second Suit to Protect the Public from Police Violence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 31, 2020 Contacts: Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney: (541) 687-9180 or lregan@cldc.org Cooper Brinson, [...]
Show Your Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners this July 25th
July 25th is the International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners. Around the world, antifascist activists are languishing in prisons. It’s [...]
We Need Mutual Aid Now More Than Ever
By: Sumit Kapur, CLDC Intern The way we think about the world is conditioned by the knowledge that we are given [...]
CLDC Files Suit to Protect the Free Press from Police Violence
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 [...]
Judge-appointed Private Prosecutor Has Deep Ties to Chevron; Retaliatory Lawsuit Against Attorney Steven Donziger Must Be Dismissed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 30, 2020 Contact: Lauren Regan (541) 687-9180 or lregan@cldc.org Eugene, OR – Attorneys for human rights attorney [...]