Energy Transfer Partners’ Ham-Handed Attempt to Sue Earth First Movement

“Earth First! is a philosophy based on biocentrism, direct action, and not compromising with Earth-destroying corporations when fighting for the environment. You can’t sue an idea.”

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Over 200 Indigenous Nations are facing a brutal police crackdown in Canon Ball, ND where they've gathered to take a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), on behalf of the environmental magazine, Earth First! Journal, asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is intended to suppress activism. On behalf of Energy Transfer Partners and Energy Transfer Equity, Kasowitz Benson Torres, the law firm

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Watch | Death & Biostitutes – Mike Papantonio on the US Opioid Crisis

Behind America’s opioid epidemic is a multi-billion dollar industry that feeds drug manufacturing giants, distributors and more.

Abby Martin
By Abby Martin
Opioid epidemic

 A new phenomenon has emerged in the United States: 64,000 people died in 2016 of a drug overdose—with 80% from opioids—with levels of addiction nearly 500% higher over the last six years. Behind this epidemic is a multi-billion dollar industry, that feeds drug manufacturing giants, distributors and more. With the U.S. government failing

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Lawsuit Aims To Shed Light On Justice Department’s Surveillance Of Journalists

The Department of Justice is being sued over a staggering twenty-seven ongoing investigations into potential leaks.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a briefing on leaks of classified material one week after President Donald Trump complained that Sessions was weak on preventing such disclosures, Aug. 4, 2017.

The Justice Department has twenty-seven ongoing leak investigations, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. That is a staggering number, and now, the Knight First Amendment Institute and Freedom of The Press Foundation are suing for records on how those investigations may infringe upon the First Amendment rights of journalists. In a filing

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Chicago Police Accused Of Ruining Black Man’s Wedding Day

“On what should have been one of the happiest days of his life, plaintiff Joseph Baskins was instead subjected to a nightmare that would last three years,”

Lorraine Bailey
By Lorraine Bailey
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2015, file photo, Chicago police officers line up outside the District 1 central headquarters in Chicago, during a protest for the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Special prosecutor Patricia Brown-Holmes announced Tuesday, June 27, 2017, that three Chicago police officers were indicted on felony charges that they conspired to cover up the actions of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke in the killing of McDonald. The indictment, approved by a Cook County grand jury, alleges that one current and two former officers lied about the events of Oct. 20, 2014 when Van Dyke shot the black teenager 16 times. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty File)

An Illinois man claims three intoxicated, on-duty Chicago cops made racist comments and attacked him and his fiancée in a City Hall elevator, landing the man in jail on what was supposed to be his wedding day. “On what should have been one of the happiest days of his life, plaintiff Joseph Baskins was instead subjected to a nightmare that would

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Chicago Police Sued Over Abuse Of Disabled Citizens

In the United States, one-third to one-half of fatal police incidents involve someone with disabilities and a quarter of victims of police violence are people with a mental illness.

Matt Reynolds
By Matt Reynolds
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2015, file photo, Chicago police officers line up outside the District 1 central headquarters in Chicago, during a protest for the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Special prosecutor Patricia Brown-Holmes announced Tuesday, June 27, 2017, that three Chicago police officers were indicted on felony charges that they conspired to cover up the actions of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke in the killing of McDonald. The indictment, approved by a Cook County grand jury, alleges that one current and two former officers lied about the events of Oct. 20, 2014 when Van Dyke shot the black teenager 16 times. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty File)

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois on Wednesday continued the push for reforms in the Chicago Police Department by filing a lawsuit claiming it mistreats people with disabilities in black and Latino communities. In August, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sued the police department for alleged discrimination of black and Latino

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Trump’s Muslim Ban 3.0 Faces First Major Legal Challenge

In many respects, this version of the ban is the cruelest and absurd of three Muslim bans. North Korea and Venezuela are simply cover for discrimination.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Protestors of a travel ban gather in Union Square, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in New York. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

A major lawsuit was filed against the third version of the Muslim ban issued by President Donald Trump on September 24. In particular, the lawsuit calls attention to the disproportionate impact the ban will likely have on Iranian Americans. Muslim Advocates, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), Americans United for Separation of Church

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