Download this Executive Summary as a PDF . Learn more about the case, SMUG v. Lively. In March 2012, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay...
Sanctuary cities. Everybody is talking about them. Less than two weeks ago, New York City Mayor de Blasio said “ we will go to court immediately ” if President Trump cuts federal funding because of...
...A group of transgender and non-binary people from across the country, including an activist from Tampa Bay, are challenging a Florida law that bars transgender people from using public restrooms...
...the Center for Constitutional Rights and the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP, on behalf of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit to...
The parties in the stop-and-frisk litigation have asked Southern District Judge Analisa Torres ( See Profile) to resolve motions to intervene by police unions who oppose a settlement between the...
U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that New York City could be on the hook for as much as $128.7 million in a lawsuit alleging it used a racially discriminatory test to evaluate candidates...
California agreed to a "landmark" settlement of a federal class action filed on behalf of hundreds of prisoners held in solitary confinement for more than a decade at the state's prison in Pelican...
Attorneys urged the D.C. Circuit to revive claims that federal prisons single out Muslim inmates for isolation units where their communications face 24-7 surveillance. The Center for Constitutional...
U.S.-educated al-Qaida volunteer Majid Khan returns to the war court Wednesday for the first time since 2012 for a brief hearing with a new judge and prosecutor and expanded defense team. Khan , 36,...
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Muslim men detained after the Sept. 11 attacks can't sue top U.S. law enforcement officials. The justices by a 4-2 vote ended a long-running lawsuit against former...
