He provided all the information from the New York Bar but refused to answer questions such as listing every organizations he was or had been a member as he believed it infringed on his First and Fifth Amendment rights.
[3] After Vista, Stolar was awarded a Reginald Heber Smith Community Law Fellowship to work at Bedford-Stuyvesant Legal Services in Brooklyn.
He started doing nonprofit and corporate legal work for movement organizations such as Liberation News Service, Third World Newsreel, and Clergy and Laity Concerned.
His clients were a group of church-based resisters who broke into a draft board in Camden, New Jersey as an act of conscientious objection to the Vietnam War.
They were a group of twenty-one Black Panther members who were arrested and accused of planned coordinated bombing and long-range rifle attacks on two police stations and an education office in New York City in 1969.
[1] Following information learned about the spying tactics used against the Black Panthers, Stolar and Jethro Eisenstein strategized on a class action lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
In addition, plaintiffs protested seven types of police misconduct: (1) the use of informers; (2) infiltration; (3) interrogation; (4) overt surveillance; (5) summary punishment; (6) intelligence gathering; and (7) electronic surveillance, and alleged that these police practices which punished and repressed lawful dissent had had a "chilling effect" upon the exercise of freedom of speech, assembly and association, that they violated constitutional prohibitions against unreasonable searches and seizures, and that they abridged rights of privacy and due process.
[8] This ruling resulted in a consent decree which put in numerous restrictions how the NYPD may use surveillance and informants on political, ideological or religious activities.