Month: January 2016

Amicus in Port Militarization Resistance case

January 31, 2016 commentary
An important case, Panagacos v. Towery, involving Army spying on US activist groups is back at the 9th Circuit, and my friend Heidi Boghosian and I wrote this amici curiae brief on behalf of a number of organizations (Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Lawyers Guild, A.J. Muste Institute, Campaign to Bring Mumia…

January 19 & 20

January 17, 2016 Uncategorized
Cases of interest this week involve First Amendment rights of public employees and land rights, including rights of Native Americans. Tuesday, January 19 The first case today is a rather odd factual setting, involving a mistaken belief that a police officer engaged in political activity.  If he had, that would…