The Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal have engaged in advocacy to oppose legislation in California that would threaten core First Amendment-protected...
Updated: October 16, 2017
On May 22, 2007, the judge in the mortgage fraud case of former Haitian death-squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant dropped Constant’s plea bargain in the criminal case and ordered him to go to trial...
May 17, 2013, Washington – Today, on the 100th day of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, and amid growing pressure on the Obama Administration to close the facility once and for all,...
Join Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, for a discussion of how in the First 100 Days of his administration, the next president can close Guantánamo, end...
Updated: October 10, 2008
October 13, 2017Oct 14, 2017 marks the 2 year anniversary of the approval of the Ashker settlement. We celebrate our victory in the Ashker case, in which virtually all of the over 1600 prisoners then languishing in...
Plaintiffs Rights Infringed Upon By Laura Maggi THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 People who must register as sex offenders because they were convicted of engaging in oral sex for money filed a lawsuit...
June 2014"A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against CACI International Inc that accused the defense contractor's employees of directing the torture of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison near...
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
July 27, 2015The U.S. Navy is investigating a complaint that seeks the evacuation of civilian and military lawyers from parts of the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following reports of cancer cases among...
August 5, 2022...Immigrant Defense Project and Center for Constitutional Rights have previously noted ICE agents tricking immigrants in the New York area. “In 2015, ICE agents came to the door of a home in...
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