Virginia jury last year held CACI liable for torture and awarded damages to Iraqi plaintiffs March 12, 2026, Richmond, VA – The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a historic verdict against...
Please join CCR in New Orleans on Wednesday, August 10th at 10:00 am for oral argument in Doe, et al. v. Jindal, et al., a federal civil rights complaint challenging the Crime Against Nature statute...
Governor Asked to End Project in St. James D ecember 18, 2019, St. James, Louisiana — RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots community group, recently learned that graves of enslaved people have...
June 21, 2016, New York – Today, human rights and civil liberties groups filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking documents relating to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent executive order...
... This is not the first time a big business has gotten involved in local politics. In 2019, there was a lawsuit filed by many different civil rights organizations, such as Black Lives Matter and...
So what happens when the FBI is given full discretion to use one of the many ever-expanding government watchlists to coerce law-abiding people into spying in their communities? They use it, of course...
In the wake of the recent attempted attack on Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253, several elected officials have renewed their politicized claims that closing the prison at Guantánamo...
Reversing Decades of Precedent, Highest Court Allows Private Corporations to Block Release of Government Information June 24, 2019, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court reversed decades of...
January 26, 2016, Oakland – As a federal judge prepared to hold a hearing for the final approval of a landmark settlement agreement to end indefinite solitary confinement in California, the Center...
