A federal judge has just ruled against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which had sought to have Steven Salaita’s case against it tossed out. At the same time, the chancellor who had...
August 3, 2010, Washington, DC and New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department and...
by Dina Temple-Raston The father of the Internet's most famous radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is planning to sue the U.S. government for including his son on a CIA target list. Nasser al-Awlaki...
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Wonderful news for our clients and their families from Yemen [caption align="right"] [/caption] Yemeni-Americans who for more than a year had been prevented from joining their families in the United...
Stand up for Indigenous rights in Bolivia [caption align="right"] [/caption] The Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel are headed to Miami to represent our clients in a federal lawsuit...
Crafting Laws in Secret With Corporations and Conservative Activists Violates Open Meetings Law, Lawsuit Says September 1, 2020, Phoenix, AZ – Today, attorneys representing leaders from Arizona’s...
From the Streets to the Supreme Court: Protecting our Communities from Federal Rrpression [caption align="right"] [/caption] We’re just a few weeks away from Supreme Court arguments in Tanzin v...
Customs and Border Protection Has Contributed to Deaths of Thousands, Advocates Say Groups Demand Documents Under Freedom of Information Act February 3, 2021, New York – Today, as the humanitarian-...
Fighting for health and safety, groups ask court for role in addressing decades-long crisis September 26, 2023, Jackson, MS – Following on the heels of a major legal victory for residents’ efforts...