June 12, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and co-counsel issued the statement below responding to published accounts that the United States Department of...
By Peter Weiss, Vice President, Center for Constitutional Rights Chile's 9/11happened in 1973, with the violent overthrow of the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende by army chief Agusto...
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December 21, 2015In 2015, we continued many long and hard-fought battles against powerful and well-resourced institutions – the U.S. government, the NYPD, the NY Fire Department, the FBI, and the California...
But Possibility to Prove Liability of Prison Administrators Remains June 19, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush...
October 10, 2017The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in Jesner v. Arab Bank ostensibly on the question of whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) applies to corporations. There is a risk, however, that the...
November 12, 2015A settlement has been reached in Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for firing him from his tenured position over his personal tweets criticizing...
January 4, 2016Law360, Washington (January 4, 2016, 9:30 PM ET) -- A Second Circuit panel on Monday blocked a suit, accusing high-level Bush administration officials of contributing to the abuse of immigrants...
March 22, 2018We talked with Maria Lahood, the Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria was one of the attorneys representing the board members of the Olympia Food Co-op. The members...
March 18, 2019... on Monday, Wahbe joined another Palestinian American, Ziad Alwan, as well as the Palestinian town of ‘Anata and the village of Jalud, in launching the first-ever legal challenge in the United...
November 6, 2020...The email says that ICE “sent out nine ‘notice of intention to fine’ for sanctuary cases” that were approved by the Director’s office. “Because each of these cases has already had high media...
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