New York, NY – Today, Black firefighters ask the court to rule in their favor in a lawsuit charging the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) with discriminatory hiring practices. The case, filed by the...
Pam Fujii joined the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 2012 as a Grant Writer. Pam has a MA in Media Studies from The New School, where she studied documentary film and video and digital...
April 18, 2019...The U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) similarly found the court's decision appalling . "With its decision today, the International Criminal Court sends a dangerous message: that...
April 25, 2019... Just this week, Israel ordered Human Rights Watch’s investigator in Israel, Omar Shakir, to leave the country by May 1st. In response, the Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR ) said, “The...
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post on May 6, 2010. In response to supposed legal restrictions on the interrogation of U.S. citrizen and suspected Times Square SUV bomber Faisal...
Updated: June 23, 2010
October 1, 2012, New York – Today, while a federal judge heard comments on the fairness of his most recent rulings in the landmark case on racial disparities in the New York City Fire...
July 30, 2014, New York – Today, federal District Judge Analisa Torres rejected the attempts of several police unions to intervene in Floyd v. City of New York , the landmark stop-and-frisk...
March 7, 2011, New York – In response to the Obama administration’s announcement today that it has ordered the Department of Defense to lift a stay on new charges in military commissions...
April 18, 2011, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Supreme Court announced that it will not hear the Guantánamo detainee case Kiyemba v. Obama. The decision follows...
For CCR supporters in the Charlottesville area, please join CCR Social Justice Institute Director Purvi Shah in a discussion of Movement Lawyering: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Social Change ...
Updated: January 15, 2013
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