In Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz, attorneys at CCR brought the first challenge to the constitutionality of abortion statutes in which women were the plaintiffs and the issues raised were those of a woman...
Updated: January 25, 2010
A suit on behalf of the Oneida Nation of New York against the U.S. Department of the Interior, charging that the government violated the Oneidas’ national sovereignty. The suit alleged that the...
Updated: February 10, 2012
The population of Hempstead, New York, which covers the heart of Long Island’s Nassau County, is 13 percent Black and Latino, but all of its six Republican council members lived in...
Updated: February 15, 2012
On November 9, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for compassionate release in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Charles Watts, a 51-year-old Black man who is...
Updated: January 5, 2023
June 1, 2016This week, CCR welcomed its 2016 Class of Ella Baker Summer Legal Interns. Each year, CCR receives hundreds of applications from students around the world interested in learning from us and growing...
CCR Bertha Justice Institute Fellow Stephanie Llanes will be speaking at the 2017 Summit on Latin@s on a panel, Criminal Justice and Police-Community Relations . The Summit on Latin@s seeks to...
Updated: May 31, 2017
November 4, 2019We're standing in solidarity with Louisiana climate justice protesters [caption align="left"] [/caption] Reverend Gregory Manning and Sakura Kone were arrested Wednesday at the Louisiana Association...
CCR joined 238 national and state immigration and civil human rights organizations, law offices, educational institutions, elected officials, and faith-based groups in signing this letter to...
Updated: September 27, 2017
Please join CCR, Witness Against Torture, and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our montly vigil on October 5. Organizers, advocates, and attorneys will make connections...
Updated: October 2, 2015
Updated: September 16, 2009
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