In a decision cheered by human rights organizations and immigrant justice activists, the Supreme Court ruled in Benitez v. Mata (also known as Martinez v. Clark) on January 12, 2005 that the...
September 15, 2009, New Orleans, LA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted an amicus brief to the Louisiana Supreme Court in support of Bruce Wallace, a petitioner who alleges...
From the Streets to the Supreme Court: Protecting our Communities from Federal Rrpression [caption align="right"] [/caption] We’re just a few weeks away from Supreme Court arguments in Tanzin v...
Federal case over immigration information-sharing ends January 15, 2020, Montpelier, VT — Human rights organization Migrant Justice and the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles have reached a...
As a Japanese lawyer studying in the United States, I came across CCR’s case Hassan v. City of New York , a lawsuit challenging the blanket surveillance and religious profiling of Muslim communities...
New York, April 23, 2009— This afternoon, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Royal Dutch Shell’s motion to dismiss a human rights case charging...
Biden’s first Guantánamo transfer The Biden administration has officially transferred Abdul Latif Nasser out of the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison. We are relieved that Mr. Nasser, who has been...
On August 31, 2005, in New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating counsel confirmed that prisoners have begun a new hunger strike at Guantánamo because the Department of Defense...
15,000 Pages of Documents Previously Obtained by CCR Show U.S. Blocking Efforts at Accountability May 30, 2017, San Francisco – the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Center for...
Well over a decade after the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq, the effects of war linger. The trauma of war is compounded by the conflict between ISIS and local militias; women’s rights are...
