August 10, 2020Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...
May 30, 2024, Buffalo, NY – In a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo challenging unconstitutional and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department (BPD),...
April 11, 2025, Jena, Louisiana - In a decision that appeared to be pre-written, an immigration judge ruled immediately after a hearing today that Mahmoud Khalil is removable under U.S. immigration...
December 30, 2013, New York – In response to the announcement that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has selected former United States Attorney Zachary Carter as incoming Corporation Counsel for the...
June 8, 2015If Barack Obama can publicly apologize for the accidental killings of two al-Qaida hostages – one American and one Italian – by a US drone strike, the White House should extend the same courtesy to a...
July 27, 2015Nearly two weeks after a former Guantánamo attorney asked the Inspector General’s Office at the Pentagon to investigate whether the war court compound at the remote base was linked to seven cases of...
November 13, 2015I have settled my lawsuit with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This declaration of fact supposedly ends a story with the tidiness to which storytelling in a linear society...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will join St. Louis civil rights activist Brittany Packnett and Steve Silverman, founder of Flex Your Rights, for a panel discussion on the future of...
Updated: November 30, 2015
On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:30 a.m., the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati will hear oral argument in Phillips v. Snyder from CCR co-counsel, the Sugar Law Center. Phillips v...
Updated: July 28, 2016
August 4, 2016Over two years ago, a federal judge swept aside multiple delay tactics by the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder and allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Michigan’s Emergency...
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