what does a legal smackdown look like?

[drewkitty]

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/11/14/complaint_campbell_v_oakland.pdf

[Plaintiffs] vs. City of Oakland, interim Police Chief Howard Jordan

Complaint for Damages & Declaratory & Injunctive Relief

"... Plaintiffs are therefore asking this Court for a temporary restraining order and further injunctive relief to prohibit Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them . . . from violating their Constitutional rights during future protests. Specifically, plaintiffs are requesting that the Oakland Police Department and its agents be enjoined from violating the Crowd Control Policy ("the policy") that it adopted as part of the settlement in [past litigation.]"

http://www.nlgsf.org/docs/OaklandPolicePolicy.pdf

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[ravan.livejournal.com]

Lovely legal smackdown. There need to be more of these. I want to see one against Bloomberg's goons for shutting the press out of their raid without a good cause. The only "threat" was the police.