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July 11, 2025
The following remarks were made by Celine Zhu at the Justice Committee's rally + press conference in New York City on July 11: Good afternoon. My name is Celine, and I am an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where we are counsel for Floyd v. City of New York which showed the NYPD was engaged in widespread racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policin g, and we have been fighting for over two decades alongside community groups and families seeking accountability for the NYPD’s practice of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop, question, and frisk practices...
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May 30, 2018
This Thursday, a Canadian logging company named Resolute Forest Products will be in federal court, arguing that Greenpeace, STAND.earth, and “Jane Does 1-20” are part of a criminal racketeering...
May 28, 2018
Resist SLAPP lawsuits [caption align="left"] [/caption] Join protectors of the environment and the defenders of the First Amendment Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, CA for a hearing on the...
May 14, 2018
Nakba Day: This Tuesday will mark 70 years of the Nakba, or the catastrophe, commemorating the forced displacement of Palestinians by the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. It has also...
April 23, 2018
Muslim Ban to be decided this week [caption align="right"] [/caption] Oral arguments on the Muslim Ban (AKA the Travel Ban and Hawaii v. Trump), are slated for Wednesday. The Supreme Court reinstated...
April 16, 2018
CCR has launched a podcast! [caption align="right"] [/caption] We are excited to announce the launch of the CCR podcast, The Activist Files ! The monthly series will feature the stories of people of...
April 9, 2018
NJ Muslims win settlement with NYPD [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, a group of Muslim-owned businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups announced that we finalized a...
March 26, 2018
CCR and Color of Change to DHS: Release the #RacePaper [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, CCR, Color of Change, and the Kramer Law Clinic sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to...
March 19, 2018
CCR Calls for Iraq Reparations on 15th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion Today is the 15 th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has challenged U.S...
March 12, 2018
WA court dismisses seven-year lawsuit over boycott of Israeli goods [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Friday, a Washington State court ended a seven-year litigation battle against former...
March 5, 2018
Last week, we went to court with ArchCity Defenders and co-counsel to challenge St. Louis County’s unconstitutional "Wanted" system to certify a plaintiff class of thousands of people who’ve been...
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February 26, 2018
The landmark, class action settlement in CCR’s case challenging long-term solitary confinement, Ashker v. Governor of California , brought widespread reform to the practice of solitary in California...

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April 7, 2025