November 22, 2013 - Today, an appellate panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied the City of New York’s request to vacate District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s...
September 4, 2014, New York - In response to today’s announcement by the NYPD that it will launch the body camera pilot program ordered by Judge Shira Scheindlin in the landmark case Floyd v...
November 13, 2015Steven Salaita hit the jackpot Wednesday, when the University of Illinois agreed to pay him $600,000 and his lawyers an additional $275,000 to go away. That's roughly seven times what his annual...
April 17, 2016The U.S. has transferred nine Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility to Saudi Arabia. The group represented just over 10 percent of the population that remained at Guantanamo...
On April 10, 2019, CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani testified during a hearing on the impact of marijuana policies on child welfare before the New York City Council Committees on Hospitals...
Updated: April 10, 2019
"How it Would Feel to Be Free: Southern Resistance to Race and Gender Oppression" A live taping of "The Activist Files" podcast. Friday, February 28, 2020 6-9 p.m. Studio...
Updated: February 27, 2020
August 6, 2020Judge Puts Halt to Trumps Racist Wealth Test, the Public Charge Immigration Rule Amid Covid-19 Pandemic with Brittany Tomas, attorney, Center for Constitution Rights Federal Judge George Daniels...
Plaintiffs Seek A Preliminary Injunction To Protect Immigrants Seeking Green Cards While Litigation Continue s January 21, 2020, New York, NY – Today, immigrant rights advocates filed a petition in...
December 13, 2010, New York – The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) announced on December 9 that it has lifted the ban on deportations to Haiti for persons with criminal...
March 2014ELEVEN years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq in an unprovoked, unnecessary, unconstitutional action that violated international law. Not long after the March 2003 military blunder...
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