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.
June 2009An ACLU lawsuit will challenge the transfer of an inmate to a facility that drastically limits outside contact.
November 2009The federal government is paying $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants who sued over their detention and treatment in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11, when hundreds of noncitizens...
December 2009The federal government must continue to provide grant money to the national community organizing group ACORN, a federal court ruled Friday, saying that the House violated the Constitution when it...
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