This year's Bertha Justice Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer by profiling global and domestic models of "movement lawyering"--lawyers and organizers working...
Guled Hassan Duran Is First So-Called “High Value” Detainee to Be Approved January 10, 2022 – In response to news that our client Guled Hassan Duran was approved for transfer by a periodic review...
...In recent months, the same site has been targeted by Greenfield Louisiana LLC for a grain terminal along the Mississippi River. The Banners, who live and work in the neighborhood, also lead a...
Court Rejects Requested Injunction May 3, 2019, New York – Today, in response to a Superior Court ruling in New Jersey that categorically rejected an injunction requested by the Ramapo Hunt and Polo...
Rafaela Uribe is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where they work on issues of racial and gender justice, discriminatory policing, governmental abuses of power, and...
One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
In Court Challenging Racially Discriminatory "Emergency Manager" Law On Wednesday, a federal court in Detroit heard oral argument in CCR’s case challenging Michigan’s controversial Emergency Manager...
...According to CDCR’s latest records, from June 2023 , there were 3,167 people in segregated confinement in California. The number is a major reduction from levels of a decade ago. According to the...
December 11, 2008, New York – Today, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said that Portugal is willing to accept Guantanamo detainees who cannot return to their home countries, and urged other...
A lawsuit filed today in federal court in San Francisco challenges an executive order issued today by President Donald Trump allowing migrants to seek asylum in the U.S. only if they enter lawfully...
