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March 2021

CLDC Files Civil Rights Suit On Behalf of Black Unity Members Brutalized by Springfield Police

By |2021-03-08T16:25:19-08:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Articles, Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News|Tags: , , , , |

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 Police

Eugene, OR —Today, the Civil Liberties Defense Center filed a federal civil rights lawsuit […]

February 2021

CLDC Client Prosecuted for First Amendment-Protected Chalking Outside of Representative’s Office

By |2023-07-10T09:38:31-07:00February 25th, 2021|Categories: Articles, Cases, Featured, News, Protest|Tags: , , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 25, 2021

Contacts:

ORD2 Indivisible Steering Committee
contact@ORD2Indivisible.org

Sarah Alvarez, CLDC Staff Attorney
(541) 687-9180 or info@cldc.org

 

CLDC Client Prosecuted for First Amendment-Protected Chalking Outside of Representative’s Office

Medford, OR — Over the past two years, the City of Medford spent inordinate public resources and time […]

CLDC Amends Civil Rights Suit After New Details About Police Misconduct Uncovered

By |2021-02-22T15:30:51-08:00February 22nd, 2021|Categories: Articles, Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 22, 2021

Contacts:

Lauren Regan, Executive Director and Senior Staff Attorney
info@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810

Marianne Dugan, Senior Staff Attorney
mdugan@cldc.org or (541) 687-9810

 

CLDC Amends Civil Rights Suit After New Details About Police Misconduct Uncovered

Eugene, OR — Today, attorneys with the Civil Liberties Defense Center amended their federal […]

January 2021

Court Agrees: Logging Giant Can’t Bully Advocates Again

By |2021-01-26T15:48:11-08:00January 26th, 2021|Categories: Articles, Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , , |

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

 

Court Agrees: Logging Giant Can’t Bully Advocates Again

Oakland, CA— Last Thursday United States Magistrate Judge Kandis A. […]

The New Water Wars: Big Timber, Bottled Water, and Corporate Law Firms vs. the People of Weed

By |2021-01-26T15:04:25-08:00January 26th, 2021|Categories: Articles, Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , |

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

 

The New Water Wars: Big Timber, Bottled Water, and Corporate Law Firms vs. the People of Weed

In an […]

Victims of Eugene Police Violence Push City to Enact Meaningful Change

By |2022-02-24T16:18:51-08:00January 12th, 2021|Categories: Current Cases, Featured, News, Protest|Tags: , , , |

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 Push City to Enact Meaningful Change

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Civil Liberties Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of Washington State Minister

By |2021-01-11T13:58:16-08:00January 5th, 2021|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , , , |

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

 

Civil Liberties Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of Washington State Minister: Argue that Rev. Taylor was morally compelled to act to protect the climate

Spokane, WA […]

December 2020

CLDC Calls for Charges Leveled at Sexual Assault Survivor to be Dropped by Eugene Police

By |2020-12-15T09:37:23-08:00December 14th, 2020|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , |

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 […]

November 2020

SCOTUS Vacates Two Fifth Circuit Decisions, Affirms First Amendment Protections, Civil Rights

By |2020-11-11T10:19:50-08:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Featured, News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

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 unidentified person throws a rock, but identified government agents cannot be held liable for making […]

October 2020

Eugene Police Department Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit Brought by Journalist at Eugene Weekly

By |2020-11-17T09:24:52-08:00October 23rd, 2020|Categories: Cases, Current Cases, Featured, News, Projects and Cases|Tags: , , , |

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 Police Department Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit Brought by Journalist at Eugene Weekly

Eugene, OR—Yesterday the City of Eugene agreed to settle a federal civil rights […]

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