Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Monday, June 14, 2010 An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to...
CCR along with the National Lawyer’s Guild, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed an amicus brief in the case Alexander v...
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
"When we filed the first case challenging detentions at Guantánamo Bay shortly after the first men arrived there in 2002, we didn’t know what to expect. Family members of a few of...
"Ten years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that foreign 'enemy combatants' held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station had a right to challenge the legality of their detention in...
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Steven Salaita's employment lawsuit against the University of Illinois can proceed, rejecting the UI's motion to dismiss the case. In a written ruling, U.S...
In a strongly worded opinion that invoked discrimination against Jews as well as the United States government's internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal court has cleared the...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department's surveillance of Muslim groups in New Jersey following the September 11th terrorist attacks...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department's surveillance of Muslim groups in New Jersey following the September 11th terrorist attacks...
