On Friday October 24th the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia will hear opening arguments from counsel of the defendants CACI International Inc and CACI Premier...
Updated: October 23, 2008
July 6, 2015Nearly a year has passed since the firing heard around the world. Steven G. Salaita, whose job offer was revoked last summer by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign following a series of...
September 3, 2015A federal court ruled American Muslims, who claim they were placed on the No Fly List after refusing to become informants, are not allowed to sue FBI agents for damages. The case, Tanvir v. Holder,...
December 11, 2015More than 13 years after innocent Muslims faced prison abuses, "it is time to move the case forward" against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and others, two Second Circuit judges said Friday as...
Please pack the court for oral arguments in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication Management Units.” The CMUs are experimental prison units that impose...
Updated: March 4, 2016
November 15, 2016A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 4 former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison thanks in part to Rutgers Law School professor Jeena Shah who played a key role in reviving...
June 2, 2017CCR has long called for an end to the military commissions system at Guantánamo, a second-class system of justice designed to hide brutal torture committed by the U.S., and a proven failure,...
May 8, 2019..."The case being dismissed against us today serves to embolden the power of the U.S. Constitution and goes along way to reinforce badly needed and missed good ole common sense," said Aaron De Groat...
July 31, 2020...Vince Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, said technology has played a significant role in policing and lawyering. "The big difference between...
May 14, 2021...International Human Rights Clinic co-director Susan H. Farbstein said much of the case was “driven and led by the plaintiffs.” “Their tireless commitment and their optimism are sort of what have...
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