October13, 2009, Albany, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the legality of prison phone rates in oral arguments before the Court of Appeals of the State of New...
February 7, 2011, Geneva and New York – Today, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints, with more than 2,500-pages of supporting material, in Geneva against former U.S...
By Bill Quigley, Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans . “Our...
Updated: January 19, 2012
January 29, 2016Adapted from remarks delivered by Vince Warren upon accepting the 2016 Haywood Burns Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Civil Rights Committee of the New York State Bar Association, New...
Court of Appeals STATE OF NEW YORK IN RE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., ON BEHALF OF TOMMY, Petitioner-Appellant, against PATRICK C. LAVERY, individually and as an officer of Circle L Trailer Sales,...
Updated: April 9, 2018
Court of Appeals STATE OF NEW YORK IN RE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., ON BEHALF OF TOMMY, Petitioner-Appellant, against PATRICK C. LAVERY, individually and as an officer of Circle L Trailer Sales,...
Updated: April 9, 2018
Roger Goodell Commissioner National Football League 345 Park Avenue New York, NY 10154 June 18, 2018 Dear Mr. Goodell: The undersigned organizations, each of which is devoted to protecting the full...
Updated: June 20, 2018
Judge Orders University to Recognize Students for Justice in Palestine Club August 6, 2019, New York – Five Fordham University students have won a landmark legal victory against Fordham University,...
June 29, 2020, New York – In response to current reporting on the impending New York City budget vote, Lupe Aguirre , Bertha Just Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...
Legal Filing Details Gruesome Suicide Attempts, Hallucinations March 8, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Lawyers representing Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani are urging a federal judge to deny an...
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