November 14, 2015As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
January 7, 2016A New Jersey business owner who claims he was harmed by the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim groups praised a settlement Thursday that will strengthen safeguards against illegal...
Please join CCR on Wednesday, September 21, at 9 am (CST) in Chicago for oral arguments in U.S. v. Johnson , an appeal from the federal prosecution of two animal rights activists under the Animal...
Updated: September 16, 2016
September 30, 2016The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) won its legal challenge to the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy more than three years ago. But suddenly the phones in our offices are...
CCR Staff Attorney Omar Farah and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hana Hussain will discuss the important work of CCR's representation of men detained without charge at Guantanamo Bay prison,...
Updated: October 13, 2016
October 21, 2016A lawsuit into a military contractor for their role in the torture at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib, was reinstated Friday, with the court rejecting arguments from the contractors that its behavior...
December 6, 2016On November 9, under a grey sky with light rain, I drove to federal court in Springfield, MA, to hear summary arguments in Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) vs. Scott Lively , a civil lawsuit in which...
January 17, 2017It was September 2001, two weeks after 19 Muslim hijackers carried out the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Federal authorities never found any connection between Abbasi, a 28-year-old yellow...
January 18, 2017In the last day of U.S. Supreme Court arguments under the Obama administration, Muslim, South Asian and Arab men rounded up in New York after 9/11 asserted Wednesday that unconstitutional national-...
January 18, 2017The Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether high-level U.S. government officials can be held liable for the alleged unconstitutional treatment of a group of noncitizens detained after the...
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