WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ - The U.S. Supreme Court sent a terrible message with its refusal today to hear the case of 250 civilians allegedly tortured and seriously harmed by corporate...
May 6, 2025, Philadelphia — The Third Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the government permission to appeal the issue of where Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas case should play out. Back...
A class action lawsuit challenging the racially discriminatory impact of several standardized tests New York City used in a re-certification process for City public school teachers
Updated: September 23, 2020
June 13, 2017One month after President Donald Trump tweeted to his millions of Twitter followers that former FBI Director James Comey “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations…” neither Trump...
December 1, 2023...Now, according to a new lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), “The United States is not only failing to uphold its obligation to prevent the commission of genocide, but...
A lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for firing Professor Steven Salaita from a tenured position over his tweets critical of Israel’s summer 2014 attack on Gaza.
Updated: February 3, 2023
A civil action filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of the families and estates of two men who died at Guantánamo Bay in June 2006. The case was brought against the...
Updated: August 30, 2021
Support comes from victims, corrections officials, prosecutors, and Governor Shapiro April 29, 2024, Harrisburg, PA – A 36-year-old Black man serving life without parole (LWOP) for felony murder is...
During an intense civil war that displaced 700,000 people and left 3.9 million in need of humanitarian support, Cameroonian security forces have been responsible for extrajudicial killings and...
Updated: April 2, 2025
As we mark twenty years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the Center for Constitutional Rights renews our call for reparations for those harmed as a result of the U.S.’s unlawful act of...
Updated: April 3, 2023
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