Men rounded up in post-9/11 sweeps push suit against warden for physical, verbal, religious abuse In a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
Days before the New Year, the Bush Administration worked through Congress to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over the fate of the detainees at Guantánamo despite a June 2004 Supreme Court ruling...
February 27, 2013, New York – Today the Army’s records management division, responsible for responding to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, released 84 judicial orders...
Reports Examine Atrocity Crimes, Minority Stress, International Law May 22, 2016, Kampala and New York – Today, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released...
Plaintiffs sue parish council for pattern of racist land use practices that centralize petrochemical plants in Black neighborhoods, declare that new suit is only just the beginning March 21, 2023,...
February 12, 2009, New York and Washington, DC— Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit confirm Department of Defense involvement in the CIA’s ghost detention program,...
July 13, 2012, New York – Today, in an important victory for open government, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, of the Southern District of New York, ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (...
March 15, 2013, New York – Last night, a federal judge approved a settlement between the government and several rights groups in a long-running lawsuit demanding transparency in the...
Marks First Time in U.S. History a Former Head of State Will Sit Before Accusers in a Civil Human Rights Trial February 20, 2018, Miami, FL – A federal judge has ruled that the former president of...