Please pack the court on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 11 am for oral arguments in our stop and frisk class action, Floyd v. City of New York . Earlier this month, community groups, labor...
Updated: October 29, 2013
CCR Board President Jules Lobel will speak about the relationship between the legal and political struggle against solitary confinement in California at an event with Legal Services for Prisoners...
Updated: July 30, 2014
Fall is in the air and CCR is excited to bring you another compelling issue at our next First Wednesday on October 1st! Did you know that the government operates a “No Fly List” in near-...
Updated: September 25, 2014
Freedom Flicks will partner with DOC NYC on November 16th to screen the award-winning documentary Soft Vengeance . SOFT VENGEANCE is a film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom...
Updated: October 20, 2014
Please join CCR for oral arguments in Hassan v. the City of New York on Tuesday, January 13th at 10:00 am in Philadelphia, PA. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over whether...
Updated: December 19, 2014
In April 2014, hundreds of documents detailing the process for designating and keeping prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons Communications Management Units (CMUs) were made public for the first...
Updated: August 7, 2014
August 2006A federal appeals court revived a 10-year-old lawsuit that alleges the basic test NYC public school teachers must pass is discriminatory against blacks and Hispanics
June 20046th U.S. circuit court of appeals rules that prison inmates cannot be transferred to a super-maximum prison without a hearing.
February 2005CCR represents Vulcan Society in arguing that the fire department's testing methods violate the civil rights of black applicants.
June 2009Supreme Court will rule on case involving racial bias in entrance exam for firefighters.
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