In the 1960s, particularly after HUAC produced Operation Abolition, a film meant to justify the committee’s existence which inadvertently underscored its high-handed tactics, people increasingly...
Updated: October 9, 2007
In this case, an employee of the state of Nevada sued his state employer in federal court, claiming a violation of the FMLA. The lower court held that the suit was barred by the Eleventh Amendment,...
Updated: October 22, 2007
CCR joined as an amicus in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida , two cases that will evaluate how the Eighth Amendment’s clause on cruel and unusual punishment applies to sentencing...
Updated: June 28, 2010
August 3, 2016Detroiters’ challenge to Michigan’s emergency manager law will be heard Thursday by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Under Public Act 436, or the Local Financial Stability and Choice Act, the...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) for a historic march against stop and frisk abuses and on Father's Day, Sunday, June 17. CCR has been active in an unprecedented campaign...
Updated: June 16, 2012
February 2012Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses how the Alien Tort Statute often provides the only way for a victim of human rights abuses committed abroad to see...
August 2, 2023...A coalition of national civil rights organizations have raised concern to the federal government about the phrase “domestic violent extremism” that has been used to justify arrests of opponents of...
January 23, 2016... The Bush administration opened Guantanamo to create a prison that was beyond the reach of any law. They explicitly chose it so that the US Constitution and other law would not apply. In their...
February 4, 2022We honor Black rage and commit to protecting the love-fueled fury that helps us fashion the world we deserve.
Nguyen Da Yen, et al. v. Kissinger is a class action suit in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in cooperation with attorneys in California argued that the detention of Vietnamese...
Updated: October 9, 2007
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