The Police Department says its practice of stopping, and sometimes frisking, thousands of people a year in high-crime neighborhoods has helped keep those areas safe. But the growing use of so-called...
Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court spoke up for the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics on Wednesday by granting class-action status to a lawsuit that accuses the New York...
Environmental groups attempting to block the construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline across the environmentally sensitive Atchafalaya Basin asked a state court to force the company to turn over...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking information on the process for adjudicating waivers. Future discovery in ongoing legal challenges...
... “CBP’s own statistics show that the Government has far more capacity to process asylum seekers than it is currently using,” attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for...
On September 11-12, 2008, Evangelicals for Human Rights, with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Mercer University, will host a national summit on torture in Atlanta, GA, on the...
Victory! Federal court blocks Trump's asylum ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal judge Wednesday blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of asylum...
Advocates Challenge the Application of ‘Unsafe’ Third Country Rule to Asylum Seekers Turned Back at Ports of Entry December 6, 2019, San Diego – Immigrant rights attorneys filed an emergency motion...
