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Case Name	Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump	PN-DC-0014
Docket / Court	1:20-cv-01469 ( D.D.C. )
State/Territory	District of Columbia
Case Type(s)	Policing
Special Collection	Litigation Against Federal Police (2020) Police Violence Protests (Spring/Summer 2020)
Attorney Organization	ACLU Affiliates (any) Washington Lawyers' Committee
Case Summary	Case summary not yet recorded compress summary

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Issues and Causes of Action

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Issues

Constitutional Clause

Freedom of speech/association

Unreasonable search and seizure

Defendant-type

Jurisdiction-wide

Law-enforcement

General

Excessive force

Pepper/OC spray

Causes of Action

42 U.S.C. § 1983
42 U.S.C. § 1985

Case Details

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Defendant(s)	Acting Chief of U.S. Park Police Attorney General William Barr Chief of Staff James McConville Director James Murray Mark Esper President Donald Trump
Plaintiff Description	Plaintiffs are participants in the Washington D.C. protest in Lafayette Square Park on June 1st, 2020. They sought class certification, but that has not been granted as of this writing (April 21, 2021).
Indexed Lawyer Organizations	ACLU Affiliates (any) Washington Lawyers' Committee
Class action status sought	Yes
Class action status granted	Pending
Filed Pro Se	No
Prevailing Party	None Yet / None
Public Int. Lawyer	Yes
Nature of Relief	None yet
Source of Relief	None yet
Filed	06/04/2020
Case Ongoing	Yes

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Case Listing	PN-DC-0015 : Buchanan v. Trump (D.D.C.)

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	Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump - Challenging Federal Officers' Unprovoked Attack on Civil Rights Demonstrators at Lafayette Square in Front of the White House ACLU of DC Date: Jun. 4, 2020 By: ACLU of DC [ Detail ] [ External Link ]

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Court	Docket(s)
D.D.C. 03/23/2021	1:20-cv-01469-DLF PN-DC-0014-9000.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
	General Documents
D.D.C. 06/04/2020	Complaint [ECF# 1] PN-DC-0014-0001.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
D.D.C. 06/09/2020	First Amended Class Action Complaint [ECF# 11] PN-DC-0014-0002.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
D.D.C. 09/03/2020	Third Amended Class Action Complaint [ECF# 52] PN-DC-0014-0003.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]

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Judges	Friedrich, Dabney Langhorne (D.D.C.) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000
Plaintiff's Lawyers	Ago, Arthur (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 Banner, Kaitlin Rose (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Baron, Noah (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Brody, David (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Brown, Tristin (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 Corkery, Dennis A. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Gordon, Arusha (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 Greenbaum, Jon M. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Kouba, David E (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Lieberman, Hannah E. M. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 McSorley, Thomas Dallas (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Michelman, Scott (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Perloff, Michael Krevans (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Smith, Johnathan James (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 Tabriz, Sonia (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000
Defendant's Lawyers	Barr, William P. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Blackman, Duane Gordon (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Corr, MinhChau Nguyen (Virginia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Crowley, Daniel S (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Cutler, David G. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Gonzalez, Joseph A. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Hair, Christopher Charles (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Heath, Brendan Russell (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Mahard, Sean Patrick (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Martin, John BlairFishwick (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Samuel, Ryan Carson (Virginia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Sobiecki, Richard P. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Zampogna, Christopher A (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000
Other Lawyers	Brown, Bruce D (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Freedman, John A. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Gramont, Alexandre de (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Hunt, Hyland (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Klein, Eric Lawrence (Massachusetts) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Rottman, Gabriel (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Spitzer, Arthur (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-0001 \| PN-DC-0014-0002 \| PN-DC-0014-0003 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 \| PN-DC-0014-9000 Spiva, Bruce V. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000 Townsend, KatieLynn (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PN-DC-0014-9000

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