Two years ago, a settlement in our case, Ashker vs. Governor of California , ended the practice of indefinite solitary confinement in California, resulting in the transfer of over 1,600 men into...
Trump’s Blanket Refusal to Release Any Detainee Amounts to Arbitrary Detention, Lawsuit Says January 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 16 th anniversary of the Guantánamo prison’s opening,...
Last week, CCR held our Board meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. CCR was founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, and Mississippi is the programmatic birthplace...
March 1, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Newly released documents reveal that Louisiana state intelligence officers surveilled community groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline and that regulators used...
Organizations that successfully challenged stop and frisk request reforms based on three years of community input June 8, 2018 , New York — Today, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions...
Join us for the "Protect the Protest" coalition launch! On Wednesday, CCR will participate in the launch of a nationwide coalition called " Protect the Protest " to challenge Strategic Lawsuits...
Submits Notice of Hearing Request in U.S. Court to Address Serious Concerns Regarding Physical and Mental Health December 6, 2018, The Hague/New York – Today, the legal representative for one of the...
Judge Denies Government’s Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Brought on Behalf of Asylum Seekers July 30, 2019, Los Angeles – A federal district court has rejected the government’s second attempt to dismiss a...
Earlier this year in June, Dr. Scott Warren walked away from the Tucson federal courthouse a free man. The DOJ had charged him with harboring, arguing that he deserved up to twenty years in prison...
We all have a role in this movement #BlackLivesMatter [caption align="right"] [/caption] Sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others whose names we may never know...
