On May 11, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a brief letter that outlines the priorities that we would like to see reflected in the second Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic...
Updated: May 13, 2020
August 12, 2013, New York – In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. In...
October 15, 2014, New York – Today, attorneys in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) landmark class action stop-and-frisk lawsuit, Floyd v. City of New York , urged a three-judge panel...
February 5, 2018, New York –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on...
July 16, 2010, New York --The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today issued the following statement in response to Governor Paterson signing into law a bill that will protect the identities of...
July 10, 2020, New York — This week, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling regarding an emergency motion and supplemental submission filed by the...
Join CCR Attorney Sunita Patel in Washington D.C. as she speaks about CCR's Floyd case and its impact on New York City Police Department policies and their practice of stop and frisk. Sunita's...
Updated: November 8, 2013
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...
Updated: June 11, 2019
December 8, 2016... In early 2008, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs who claimed the city’s stop-and-frisk policies were racially biased. The case wound its way...
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