by Press | Feb 7, 2025 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Earlier this week, a judge granted Metropolitan AME Church the rights to the Proud Boys trademark, a key step in enforcing a $2.8 million judgment against the extremist group. The underlying judgment was won in a lawsuit filed by the Lawyers’...
by Lawyers' Committee | Jan 6, 2025 | Blog
On January 6, 2026, it will be five years since insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Since that day, many have wondered what true accountability could look like for...
by Press | Jan 6, 2025 | Press Releases
Washington, DC — In 2021, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of U.S. Capitol Police officers who defended the Capitol during the insurrection on January 6th of that year. The ongoing lawsuit...
by Press | Jul 1, 2023 | Press Releases
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church v. Proud Boys is one of the first civil rights cases finding a violation of the D.C. Bias Related Crimes Act. WASHINGTON– Today, a judge ordered the Proud Boys and several of its leaders to pay more than $1 million for a...
by Press | Jan 11, 2022 | Press Releases
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights called on the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and other Chicago officials to update the community on the status of investigations into CPD officer Robert Bakker, who has...
