May 14, 2021...Diamond’s legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center released a statement saying they were “encouraged” by the Biden administration’s decision to jump...
June 18, 2015Top officials during the George W. Bush era can be held legally liable for the roundup of innocent detainees post-9/11, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 2nd Circuit U.S...
November 19, 2015With a wealthy donor's behind-the-scenes influence and a university chancellor's use of a private email account, the withdrawal of a professor's job offer became both a mystery to unravel and a...
June 17, 2016Eight years ago in February, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was officially charged with war crimes and murder. Three attempted trials and countless...
July 12, 2017An immigrant-rights organization, with the backing of two other groups, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday accusing Customs and Border Protection of “systematically” blocking people seeking asylum in...
February 2, 2018...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
Amicus brief in case of Guatemalans subjected to non-consensual medical experiments between 1945 and 1956.
Updated: November 7, 2022
August 4, 2016A state assemblyman seeking to protect police officers against attacks said Thursday he will seek to add cops to the list of groups for which assaults would be considered hate crimes. The proposal by...
April 25, 2019...Though no constitutional challenges over the racially disproportionate impact of the city’s anti-gang policing tactics have been filed, the issue of transparency has become one key demand of...
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