September 2009Defendants coming through Orleans Parish criminal court often don't receive an informed determination of whether police had evidence to justify their arrest, as required by federal and state law, the...
May 2009Fourteen years after the execution of the Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by Nigerian's former military regime, Royal Dutch Shell will appear before a federal court in New York to answer...
Last week, the NYPD released, for the first time, body camera video of a shooting. But what is the policy going forward, and when will the public be able to see more footage? NY1 Political Reporter...
Updated: September 19, 2017
June 13, 2018...LDF and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) served the NYPD with two Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests seeking records on its gang policing tactics, but the NYPD refused to...
December 27, 2019RISE St. James in Lousiana discovered the presence of a burial ground for slaves after reviewing emails and records from Formosa Plastics, whom they allege did not tell the local community about it...
May 2009A long-awaited internal Justice Department report promises to shed some much-needed light on the relationship between the Justice Department lawyers who wrote the infamous "torture memos"...
July 2012The killing of three US citizens, one a 16-year-old boy, in targeted drone strikes last year were unlawful and violated their constitutional rights by not affording them due process, according to a...
Updated: February 23, 2010
February 2015"A military appeals court on Wednesday overturned the terrorism conviction of an Australian whose guilty plea was once hailed as a sign that the tribunal system at the Guantánamo Bay , Cuba, prison...
February 8, 2018The Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal court to sanction Energy Transfer Partners and Energy Transfer Equity for “misusing” the legal system when it sued “Earth First!” for “federal...
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