by Press | Apr 15, 2026 | Press Releases
In response to the Justice Department’s effort to vacate the convictions of several former members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers extremist groups convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The following is a...
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 Press | Jan 6, 2025 | Press Releases
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...
