EarthRights International (ERI) filed an action in federal court today on behalf of a protestor paralyzed by police violence at the site of Newmont Mining’s Conga [joint venture Newmont & Buenaventura] mine project...ERI is seeking documents and information from Newmont to assist in pending legal proceedings in Peru related to the police repression of protestors against the Conga project. Elmer Eduardo Campos Álvarez…lost a kidney and his spleen and was paralyzed from the waist down on November 29, 2011...Mr. Campos was among at least 24 protestors injured by police that day…[Police officers] have told local prosecutors that they were providing security to the company. The proposed Conga mine has generated strong community opposition…[as it] would mean the destruction of lakes held sacred by local people, who depend on the lakes as a major source of water…The federal court motion was filed under…a law which allows parties to foreign legal proceedings to obtain documents and information from individuals or companies in the United States in service of foreign proceedings…