CCR joined New York City-based advocates and community members on July 12, 2016 in a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association , Maina...
Updated: October 26, 2016
Leading academicians, activists, political figures, and lawyers will discuss a critical, oft-neglected, public policy issue: how police, prosecutorial, and prison-related practices lead to the...
Updated: April 17, 2008
January 5, 2017Many of us bid 2016 goodbye with a toast of “good riddance” – what with the deaths of cultural icons like David Bowie and Prince, the Pulse massacre, the horror of Aleppo, and of course the rise of...
On November 27th, join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a viewing of American Son , a new Broadway play starring Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale. Following the performance, a community...
Updated: October 30, 2018
A district court judge declared an important provision of the USA Patriot Act unconstitutional because it is so vague that it “could be construed to include unequivocally pure speech and...
Please join CCR and our partners in Chicago for a Tea Engagement , part of the Tea Project , an ongoing series of exhibitions and performances that offers counter-narratives to...
Updated: April 6, 2016
March 17, 2016Yassin Aref, the Albany imam sent to federal prison after being convicted of material support for terrorism, is part of a case heard in court this week involving inmates challenging confinement in...
A hearing will be held on October 28th in our case, Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California...
Updated: October 22, 2021
August 17, 2016Last Friday, August 12, marked the third anniversary of the historic ruling in Floyd v. City of New York , in which a federal court ruled the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional and...
Parallel timeline showing events in Awad v Fordham University and Palestine Fordham Denied Student SJP Club Application then Disciplined Students for Protesting Decision CCR and Palestine Legal are...
Updated: August 6, 2019
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