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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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NAACP v. San Jose Class Action Lawsuit
We filed a class action civil rights lawsuit today, with co-counsel Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the SF Bay Area, Jim Chanin and Michael Flynn, against the City of San Jose for racist police brutality against racial justice protesters. The impact litigation is on …
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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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Water Protector Civil Lawsuit Moving Forward!
On September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, Judge Daniel Traynor allowed Dundon et al. v. Kirchmeier et al., the lawsuit challenging law enforcement’s Nov. 20, 2016, attack on water protectors on Backwater Bridge with firehoses, impact munitions, grenades and teargas, to move forward with …
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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 “. . . . The ruling is much more than an affirmation for those advocating for increased access to public records, and its reach goes far beyond Hayward’s body camera videos from 2014. ‘As we …
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State Supreme Court Rules in Favor of NLG in Police Body Camera Records Case
Today, in litigation brought by the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (“NLGSF”), the California Supreme Court decided that public agencies may not charge the public for the cost of redacting electronic records under the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”). The decision in …
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San Francisco Tenants & COVID-19
Are you a San Francisco tenant who can’t pay rent because of COVID-19? Learn more about how you can be protected, and what you need to do, by watching this video from our friends at Legal Assistance for the Elderly (the info applies to all …
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Statewide rent control in Oregon!
Oregon is poised to become the first state in the nation to impose statewide limits on how much landlords can raise rents after state lawmakers passed a sweeping measure on Tuesday. Read more here
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San Francisco Eviction Control Law Strengthened
The SF Board of Supervisors has passed a new ordinance to protect tenants in single family homes, which are not covered by rent control. Landlords of single family homes and condos cannot give tenants a huge rent increase in order to evict them without just …
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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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Oakland Protest Settlement Restricts “Less Lethal” Munitions
Federal court injunction stops police from using impact munitions, explosive …Read More »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 »