Lawsuits! One Ends, One Continues. One Begins.

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– A lawsuit against the Alameda County Sheriff, Harman v Ahern, over forced pregnancy testing of women taken to Santa Rita jail ended Wednesday, October 28th, with the announcement of a settlement forbidding the practice.

Activist Susan Harman, a member of the Oakland Privacy Working Group and Strike Debt Bay Area, was one of three plaintiffs in the lawsuit, having been arrested in 2010 during the Oscar Grant protests, taken to jail and forced to submit to a pregnancy test despite her age:

Ms. Harman told the officer that she was 69 years old and could not possibly be pregnant, but the officer required her to take the test anyway.

Meanwhile, despite alerting jail staff to her diabetes, no one responded to Harman’s requests for insulin.

– A class action lawsuit over false arrest, malicious prosecution and free speech infringement for the eviction of Occupy Wall Street denizens at Zucotti Park back in 2011 was allowed to continue, in a ruling issued by US District Court judge Andrew Carter, again on Wednesday, October 28th. According to the judge

“On the facts currently alleged, the officers lacked probable cause to arrest for trespass, disorderly conduct, or obstruction of governmental administration.”

yuvette-justice-brother – A lawsuit against the Emeryville Police Department for the execution of Yuvette Henderson was filed on October 29th, 2015 by the children and estate of Ms. Henderson, represented by Dan Siegel of Siegel & Yee, supported by the Anti Police-Terror Project.

The suit was announced at a press conference at the Oakland Federal Building on Clay Street at noon on the same day. Yuvette was killed on February 3rd, 2015 but the coroner’s report was not released until last month.

Some tweetpics and video of the press conference:


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