...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and Paris-based human rights federation FIDH told the court’s chief prosecutor that Hammouri’s case is a “stark example and a warning of new...
...Palestinians and their progressive allies like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged in US courts anti-BDS legislation and have won in an...
...“Neither the federal government nor the city of Jackson opposes our client’s request to intervene. We hope that the court will swiftly grant the motion and allow our clients to fully participate...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and our co-counsel Van Der Hout LLP for oral arguments before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in our lawsuit, Defense for Children International -...
May 11, 2012, Richmond, VA – Today, a federal appellate court dismissed the appeals of two private military contractors who had argued they were immune from litigation when they engage in...
June 10, 2014, Washington, DC – A federal appeals court today dismissed a civil lawsuit brought by six men formerly held at Guantánamo who were wrongly detained and abused while at the...
Please join the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign on Monday, August 4, 2014 as we remember Yassin Aref on the ten-year anniversary of his arrest by the federal government. CCR Senior Staff Attorney...
This post originally appeared on the Open Society Foundations website . “It is beyond the power of even the president to declare [torture] lawful,” wrote Judge Henry Floyd on October 21. These words...
January 10, New York, The Hague – In support of South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice this week charging Israel with genocide, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
April 17, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum...