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Oakland Protest Settlement Restricts “Less Lethal” Munitions
Federal court injunction stops police from using impact munitions, explosive grenades at most demonstrations and crowd events Oakland and Alameda County will pay $250,000 to two people injured at 2020 protest The City of Oakland and Alameda County have agreed to a permanent injunction restricting …
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UC SANTA CRUZ GRAD STUDENT SUES UCSC POLICE FOR BRUTALITY DURING 2020 STRIKE
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Sabrina Shirazi has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against University of California Police officials alleging that officers clubbed her repeatedly on the head and body during a February 10, 2020, labor picket, causing a concussion and other serious injuries. …
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Rachel Lederman in the news as Standing Rock criminal cases wrap up
Rachel is quoted in a major AP piece on Water Protector Legal Collective. WPLC has just wrapped up almost 850 criminal cases stemming from the indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access oil pipeline at Standing Rock in 2016-2017. Regarding the ongoing civil rights lawsuit over …
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Press coverage of our lawsuit for police beating of SF City College student demonstrators
SF Gate, Huffington Post
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Chronicle and KTVU coverage of Hashitaka police misconduct case
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Man-sues-S-F-cops-over-Baby-Bjorn-incident-5822801.php http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/man-put-chokehold-sfpd-files-suit/nhkD4/ More info on the Hashitaka lawsuit: http://beachledermanlaw.com/practice-areas/current-cases/
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Claim filed in Native American Heritage Night Case
On September 16, 2014, we filed a claim on behalf of April Negrette and Kimball Bighorse, Native Americans who were kicked out of the SF Giants’ Native American Heritage Night for speaking out against cultural appropriation, and brutalized by SFPD. Read the NLG Press Release and …
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CCSF newspaper’s coverage of our press conference
Read all about it here: CCSF paper coverage of our press conference
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Students File Claim in CCSF SFPD Police Beating
Rachel Lederman is representing two San Francisco City College students who were brutalized and wrongfully arrested by CCSF police and SFPD.
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Join Scott Olsen and Demand Oakland Drop “Less Lethals”
Scott Olsen’s skull was shattered and part of his brain destroyed when an OPD officer shot him in the head with a Specialty Impact Munition (SIM) at a 2011 Occupy Oakland demonstration. As he lay critically injured on the pavement, an OPD officer threw a …
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Chronicle story on the Olsen settlement
Chronicle story on the Olsen settlement
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NAACP v. San Jose Class Action Lawsuit
We filed a class action civil rights lawsuit today, with …Read More »UC SANTA CRUZ GRAD STUDENT SUES UCSC POLICE FOR BRUTALITY DURING 2020 STRIKE
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Sabrina Shirazi has filed a …Read More »
Water Protector Civil Lawsuit Moving Forward!
On September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, Judge Daniel …Read More »
Rachel quoted in: “State High Court to Cops: No, You Can’t Charge $3,000 for Body Camera Videos”
KQED article on the May 28 California Supreme Court decision …Read More »
State Supreme Court Rules in Favor of NLG in Police Body Camera Records Case
Today, in litigation brought by the National Lawyers Guild, San …Read More »