April 28, 2016It’s now been nine months since the first news stories were published about a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the presence of environmental toxins, afflicting lawyers and other staff at the...
Surveillance on U.S. citizens, extraordinary renditions and torture in U.S. detention facilities ... For the last decade, litigators have faced serious hurdles to challenging these practices in U.S...
Updated: March 17, 2010
July 28, 2015The Navy is investigating complaints about a heightened risk of cancer at part of the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The reported uptick in cancer diagnoses is among people working on...
April 19, 2017...But lawyers including Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Angel Harris of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund said the year-long pilot program was vague about when...
June 19, 2017WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that several high-ranking Bush administration officials may not be sued for policies adopted after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The officials include...
November 21, 2017California prisons no longer hold large numbers of prisoners for a decade or more in solitary confinement, but advocates said Monday that prison officials have failed to provide promised mental...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) is a massive legislative assault on fundamental rights, including the right to habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention in a court...
Updated: January 11, 2010
New York, May 26th, 2009 – The beginning of the trial in the landmark human rights lawsuits Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) and Wiwa v. Anderson has been delayed. The case had been previously...
November 20, 2020... At that point, Formosa was legally required to share its discovery of human remains only with law enforcement and the Louisiana Division of Archaeology. In January 2020, a month after learning...
The Charles Horman Truth Foundation will honor CCR, Rhonda Copelon, Nancy Stearns, Peter Weiss and others on September 9th with an afternoon of panels and an evening dinner ceremony. On the 40th...
Updated: September 5, 2013
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