Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Davis Wright Tremaine on Friday, March 9, 2018, to hear oral arguments on defendants’ and plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment in...
Updated: March 8, 2018
New York, June 3, 2009 – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the District Court decision dismissing the Wiwa v. Shell plaintiffs’ claims against Shell Petroleum Development Company...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, CLEAR, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton for Supreme Court argument in our case, Tanzin v. Tanvir . CUNY School of Law Professor...
Updated: October 5, 2020
On Monday, October 18, 2021, join the Center for Constitutional Rights for an appellate argument in the D.C. Court of Appeals in the case Aref v. Garland . This case was filed in the U.S...
Updated: October 6, 2021
Survivors and human rights advocates are in Geneva for the January 16th Committee on the Rights of the Child review of the Holy See’s treaty compliance. Please join the Survivors Network of...
Updated: January 14, 2014
November 2013Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
April 21, 2017One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
On the thirteenth episode of The Activist Files, Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain speaks with Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy and Senior Staff Attorney Katherine...
Updated: September 8, 2021
March 24, 20011, New York – Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, made the following statement on behalf of the Center: Len Weinglass was one of the great...
February 9, 2009, New York – In response to the position Obama’s Justice Department took today in a key rendition case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Mohamed et al v...
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