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Chronicle on $645,000 Sabeghi settlement
Chronicle on $645,000 Sabeghi settlement The City of Oakland has tentatively authorized paying Army veteran Kayvan Sabeghi $645,000 to resolve his lawsuit over his beating by OPD “Tango Team” Officer Frank Uu during an Occupy Oakland demonstration on November 2, 2011. Rachel Lederman, Dennis Cunningham …
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SF Weekly on Sabeghi settlement
Occupy Oakland: Police Brutality Tab Reaches Nearly $2.9M
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Rachel interviewed on the ongoing struggle to reform OPD’s crowd control practices
Read this in depth article by Kate Conger in the SF Weekly on the long term struggle to stop OPD abuses against protesters.
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Million Dollar Settlements Bolster Bay Area Protesters’ Rights
Million Dollar Settlements Bolster Bay Area Protesters’ Rights Article by Brad Thomson on the recent victories in the Spalding and Campbell lawsuits.
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NLG Obtains $1.17M, OPD Reforms for Occupy Oakland Protesters and Journalists
Read all about it here.
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Rachel in the UK Guardian on Occupy settlement
Rachel in the UK Guardian on Occupy settlement
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SF Weekly on second $1m+ settlement
SF Weekly on second $1m+ settlement
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$1.17M Settlement for Occupy protesters and journalists
NLG press release on our $1.17M Settlement for Occupy protesters and journalists in Campbell, et al. v. City of Oakland.
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Everything you could want to know about life after DOMA
For many fact sheets on from NCLR on various aspects of Life After DOMA click here
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Same sex marriage decisions!
The United States Supreme Court has struck down DOMA! DOMA is the federal Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that prohibited the federal government from recognizing the marriages of same-sex couples for purposes of federal programs and benefits such as Social Security and immigration. …
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