November 2013Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
Stop-and-Frisk Class Action Update
Updated: December 19, 2012
October 23, 2017President Trump told us during the campaign that he was in favor of torture because “it works.“ The Center for Constitutional Rights recently won a significant round in a case against a private...
April 29, 2009, New York –The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of the men detained by the U.S. government at Guantánamo, praised Spanish judge Baltazar...
May 5, 2016On May 4, 2016, CCR bestowed the Founders Award on Jules Lobel, our passionate cooperating attorney, board member since 1986, and current board president. Jules is the Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed...
American Constitution Society Symposium “Access to Justice in Federal Courts” Panel discussion: Effects of the Iqbal and Twombly cases Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Symposium;...
Updated: December 11, 2009
Cable 09MADRID440 View and download this entire cable here 09MADRID440 “Garzón Opens Second Investigation Into Alleged U.S. Torture of Terrorism Detainees.” Date of cable: May 5,...
Updated: December 18, 2010
February 25, 2011, New York – In response to news that the full panel of Judges of the Audencia Nacional (Spain’s High Court) rejected a Spanish prosecutor’s effort to stop an...
May 4, 2023...The case, Al Shimari v CACI, has been shuttled back and forth between the district and appellate courts over the years, with CACI on numerous occasions filing motions to dismiss the case...
October 24, 2011, Surrey, BC and New York, NY – After successfully lodging a private torture prosecution with a British Columbia court against former U.S. president George W. Bush as he visited...
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