October 22, 2019, Lacey, WA – Today, human rights lawyers urged a Washington appeals court to uphold a ruling that dismissed a lawsuit against former volunteer board members of the Olympia Food Co-op...
The Supreme Court Decision Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in an historic decision in Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. United States that the detainees at...
Updated: July 21, 2010
April 17, 2013, Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a disappointing decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) , holding that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) does not...
Post-9/11, the Bush administration has expanded the use of the state secrets privilege (SSP) to withhold evidence and dismiss cases that challenge the administration in U.S. courts. In doing so, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Washington D.C. & New York, September 30, 2015 – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) urged the Inter-American Commission on...
January 15, 2016In the summer of 2002, Chinese security officers arrested Doe VIII (whose name is withheld to protect his family), a practitioner of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. His arrest was part of...
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Amicus Brief urging the California court to investigate questions of the integrity of electronic voting in Riverside County and that claims by election...
Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner - and the winner of this year's Puffin/Nation Prize - was recently interviewed by truthout on Guantanamo as well as the CIA's destruction of...
September 23, 2008, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an opening brief for rehearing en banc with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Canadian rendition...
New York, April 23, 2009— This afternoon, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Royal Dutch Shell’s motion to dismiss a human rights case charging...
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