This is really amazing news. Tears are welling up in my eyes. Public Justice has won a class action lawsuit on behalf of wrongfully arrested 1999 WTO protesters against the city of Seattle!
In a landmark settlement reached by Public Justice on behalf of scores of people arrested in 1999 while peacefully protesting the World Trade Organization, the City of Seattle has agreed to seal and expunge the records of what a jury earlier determined to be their unconstitutional arrests by Seattle police.
In addition, the settlement mandates that the City improve police training in order to prevent unconstitutional mass arrests in the future. Finally, the City will pay $1 million to compensate the protesters for the violation of their constitutional rights and the costs of bringing the lawsuit.
I had no idea that this case was still going on. This is such an important event for our country.
Great to hear!
a mere 8 years later