April 22, 2014
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This week, Lauren Regan heads to Minnesota to represent an organizer charged with federal conspiracy in connection with the Trump regime’s “metro surge” authoritarian propaganda in the Twin Cities. This Minneapolis 15 case is ongoing in federal court in Minneapolis this week.
In Prairieland, Texas, we represent a young activist charged in state court with hindering a terrorist prosecution for allegedly deleting Signal messages or users. They face a mandatory 15-year prison sentence.
We are also fighting the government’s demand to unmask an anonymous Reddit user who posted anti-ICE sentiments. The government has demanded our client’s identity, financial information and other confidential data. The judge denied our request to block the grand jury subpoena but paused that decision while we appeal. We submitted arguments on an expedited schedule and await the appeals court’s decision.
In New Jersey, we won dismissal of the claims against American Muslims for Palestine–NJ in USA v. PSL-NJ, AMP-NJ. The lawsuit, brought under the FACE Act, targets a street protest against illegal sales of Gaza land held partly at a synagogue. Zionists assaulted assaulted activists, but federal authorities went after the protesters and groups.
The claims against AMP are particularly frivolous: its only role was promoting the protest on social media. In September 2026, the court dismissed the claims against AMP but allowed the plaintiffs to revise them. We are confident they cannot repair the claims or that we will win dismissal again, with no further opportunity to revise.
These are among the cases CLDC is handling heading into November 2026.
We are still grinding through our two Standing Rock police brutality cases, Wilansky and Poemoceah. After we overturned an earlier dismissal of Poemoceah’s case and found an excellent expert witness, the court dismissed it again. We have appealed, with arguments tentatively scheduled for early 2027. Meanwhile, an appeals court upheld the dismissal of Wilansky’s case. We are considering asking the Supreme Court to hear it.
Our longstanding case, Boudjerada, et al. v. City of Eugene, et al., challenges Eugene police’s brutal response to the May 2020 George Floyd protests.
In 2023, we won a ruling that the city’s curfew, announced with five minutes’ notice and followed by immediate arrests, was unconstitutional. An appeals court shielded the police chief and city manager from liability through “qualified immunity,” but the ruling against the city stands. We are headed to court-ordered settlement talks and, if necessary, a trial in 2027.
We are defending People’s City Council, Los Angeles, against claims arising from an Instagram post supporting a protest against an Israeli weapons company’s presentation near a synagogue. After we challenged the lawsuit, the plaintiffs withdrew it, filed a revised version, and we moved to dismiss the case.
We are also challenging a sweeping Michigan grand jury demand for student employee union records dating back to January 2023, apparently connected to Palestine solidarity protests.
Our clients in Longworth and Lardner v. Trump, et al. are outspoken anti-ICE activists who help lead protests several times a week outside Eugene’s federal building. The building houses ICE staff and handles immigration appointments, where many immigrants are taken into custody and sent to detention centers.
In November 2025, the Trump administration issued “emergency” rules making “loud or unusual noise” outside federal buildings a crime. Our clients were arrested and threatened with arrest for using megaphones to criticize the government and speak to passing drivers and pedestrians.
A federal judge blocked enforcement of the rules in December and extended that protection in March 2026 while the case continues. The judge found that our clients were likely to win and that the rules were causing lasting harm to protesters’ constitutional rights.
The government appealed, with arguments scheduled for November 2026. We are defending the court order and working to gather evidence and obtain a final ruling.
In a separate case, we challenged the tall metal fence the federal government built around most of the building, blocking off much of Eugene’s Free Speech Plaza. The court granted us a preliminary injunction ordering the government to remove the fence.
In early September 2026, the government filed its record of how the decision was made. After reviewing it, we will ask the court to rule in our favor. In the meantime, we are exploring settlement options to obtain a long-term remedy. We are also reviewing potential claims for several people injured by ICE at the building, including protesters and people reporting for news media