July 12, 2019..."What the government is saying in response to these cases, that they're not revocations, is a matter of semantics," said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She...
February 28, 2020...The president of the local NAACP chapter, George Key, reached out to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and attorney Randolph McLaughlin, with one question: Could they take the...
New York, May 26th, 2009 – The beginning of the trial in the landmark human rights lawsuits Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) and Wiwa v. Anderson has been delayed. The case had been previously...
October 23, 2017President Trump told us during the campaign that he was in favor of torture because “it works.“ The Center for Constitutional Rights recently won a significant round in a case against a private...
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...
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