A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by UC Berkeley activists who claim the they were unconstitutionally targeted for arrest in a 2009 campus protest can go forward.
Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler says the students have made a “plausible” case that the university’s police chief and vice chancellor for student affairs violated their First Amendment rights during the Wheeler Hall occupation, in which sixty-six peaceful demonstrators were arrested, cuffed, and transported two counties away for booking.
This isn’t a full victory for the students, just permission for the lawsuit to go forward — technically, a denial of the defendants’ motion to dismiss the suit. But it’s still a major vindication of the activist perspective on an event that many of us have long seen as an appalling violation of students’ rights.
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May 5, 2012 at 12:42 am
yay!
case name?
June 16, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Free Syria
Russia out of Syria in global protest!!! Build the movement and take Assad down and send Russia on its way. Russia Out of Syria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unite the globe. Unite Syria