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...
Updated: May 23, 2016
August 21, 2020...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...
June 2014The 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...
September 1, 2015California 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...
March 16, 2016Attorneys 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...
September 13, 2016U.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,...
June 19, 2017The 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...
October 22, 2021...In December, lawyers for the outgoing Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to take up the case. They said judges should defer to the government and should not second-guess the executive...
March 2012U.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...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will join the Deerfield Progressive Forum for the 5th annual CCR presentation to a group of self-described politically sophisticated retirees. Stephanie...
Updated: February 24, 2017
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