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Free Speech : Right to Protest : Legal Documents

New Mexico Protest - Complaint (01/15/2008)

Rank v. Jenkins - Joint Stipulation of Dismissal with Predjudice (08/15/2007)

Rank v. Jenkins - Complaint (06/28/2007)

Weise v. Jenkins - Complaint (03/15/2007)

We are One America Committee v. City of Asheville, NC Complaint (10/03/2006)
We are One America Committee v. City of Asheville, NC Complaint

Map of Jacksonville, OR (07/06/2006)
Map of Jacksonville, OR

Jackson County Green Party v Secret Service Demand for Jury Trial (07/06/2006)
Jackson County Green Party v Secret Service Demand for Jury Trial

McQueary v. Stumbo Complaint (05/02/2006)
McQueary v. Stumbo Complaint

ACLU of VA letter to George Mason University (02/17/2006)

District Court Decision in Sullivan et al v. City of Augusta (12/22/2005)
U.S. District Court Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. issued an order striking down an Augusta, Maine, parade ordinance, finding that the city unfairly imposed fees and rules on the rights of peaceful protesters seeking to march and gather in the state capital. The ruling comes in a case brought by the Maine Civil Liberties Union.

Frisbie-Fulton v. O'Connor (02/10/2005)

Egolf v. Witmer - Complaint (12/09/2004)

ACLU Brief in Rank v. Jenkins (09/14/2004)

Letter to La Crosse Police Re: Investigation of Visit by President Bush (08/31/2004)

Grand Jury Subpoena (08/30/2004)

Complaint in Lyde v. Glynn County and City of Brunswick (05/03/2004)

The letter to Attorney General Bill Lockyer (04/21/2004)

The letter to Senator Barbara Boxer (04/21/2004)

Complaint in ACORN, et al v. Philadelphia, et al (09/23/2003)

Pennsylvania v. Neel Transcript (09/23/2003)

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