NEW YORK, December 1, 2009 - Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $19 million judgment against Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the former leader of Haiti’s notorious death...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) seeks experienced second or third-year law students or LLM students with a strong commitment to social justice to provide legal research and analysis as...
Updated: September 19, 2016
February 5, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Last night, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Dr. Steven Salaita over the American Studies Association’s (ASA) resolution to endorse the call to...
Reversing Decades of Precedent, Highest Court Allows Private Corporations to Block Release of Government Information June 24, 2019, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court reversed decades of...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and our partners for a multi-part livestream on January 26 to amplify the hearing in our federal lawsuit, Defense for Children International - Palestine (...
Updated: January 26, 2024
May 15, 2025, Jackson, MS – The People's Advocacy Institute (PAI) and Mississippi Poor People's Campaign (MS-PPC), who were granted intervenor status in 2024 in a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S...
The Case Against Shell Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell...
Updated: July 22, 2010
March 2010The Supreme Court decides not to immediately hear Uighur case.
April 22, 2015, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to a front-page story in The Washington Post about the Obama...
Guantánamo at Home: The Case of Syed Fahad Hashmi and the Demise of Civil Rights in the Federal Courts . December 15 at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets 7:30-9 pm...
Updated: December 9, 2009
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