June 12, 2013, New Orleans – Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a settlement with Louisiana was finalized that...
March 13, 2025, El Paso, Texas — Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Texas A&M School of Law Civil Rights Clinic submitted a petition for a writ of...
April 10, 2019 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520 Re: Cease All Forms of Military Assistance to Israel Secretary of State Pompeo: The...
Updated: April 18, 2019
A lesser-known weapon in the “War on Terror” inflicts suffering on people in prison and denies them due process October 18, 2021, New York ‒ Today, a man who spent nearly five years in a so-called...
In April 2004, news outlets broke the story of torture and abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The stories were accompanied by gruesome photos from a whistleblower – images so...
Updated: February 29, 2024
September 11, 2015Stanley Nelson’s latest film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution , is an important lesson. Not strictly a history lesson, charting the dramatic rise and fall of one of the most vibrant...
June 24, 2022“An Authoritarian Jurisprudence of Violence and Control”
Jules Lobel, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is the lead attorney representing Pelican Bay prisoners in a lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement in California prisons...
Updated: July 17, 2013
March 30, 2012, New Orleans – Yesterday, one day after attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights argued that individuals convicted prior to August 2011 under Louisiana’s “...
American Constitution Society Symposium “Access to Justice in Federal Courts” Panel discussion: Effects of the Iqbal and Twombly cases Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Symposium;...
Updated: December 11, 2009
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