CLDC Files Civil Rights Suit On Behalf of Black Unity Members Brutalized by Springfield Police
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2021 Contact: Lauren Regan, Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org CLDC Files Civil Rights Suit On Behalf of Black Unity Members Brutalized by Springfield [...]
Court Agrees: Logging Giant Can’t Bully Advocates Again
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 [...]
The New Water Wars: Big Timber, Bottled Water, and Corporate Law Firms vs. the People of Weed
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 [...]
Digital Security Recommendations for 2021
TLDR: Just look for the --> arrows and do some of these things. If you only have capacity to do a few things, do one from each category, starting from the top. Why are you [...]
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 [...]
Eugene Police Department Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit Brought by Journalist at Eugene Weekly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2020 Contacts: Marianne Dugan, CLDC Senior Staff Attorney Cooper Brinson, CLDC Staff Attorney (541) 687-9180 or [...]
CLDC Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Florida Community Advocate SLAPPed by Mining Company
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12, 2020 Contacts: Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Director & Protect the Protest Legal Coordinator Rebecca Chapman, CLDC [...]
Standing Rock Civil Rights Lawsuits Moving Forward After North Dakota Federal Court Rejects Defendants’ Dismissal Request
In June, CLDC gave you an update on the various civil rights cases that we and others have filed against the [...]
Trump’s Push to Privatize the USPS is a Direct Threat to Democracy
My maternal grandfather was born in 1914 and served in the Army during World War II. When he returned from the [...]
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, [...]