December 18, 2019...The burial site is on what was the Buena Vista plantation and was confirmed in a June report written by an environmental consultant hired by Formosa Plastics Group called TerraXplorations Inc. and...
The Social Justice Throwdown has been postponed and will now take place on September 17, 2020 in New York City . The Center for Constitutional Rights has rescheduled our community event as a...
Updated: August 28, 2020
Hearing in Consolidated Blackwater-Xe cases on Defendants’ motion to enjoin the parties from making extrajudicial statements The lawsuits Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and...
Updated: August 5, 2009
Hearing in Consolidated Blackwater-Xe cases on Defendants' motion to dismiss. The lawsuits Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc., et al. and Estates of...
Updated: August 5, 2009
May 16, 2014 - We express our deep concern regarding the brutal beating of José Guadalupe Ruela García, the director of Casa Alianza of Honduras, allegedly by members of the Honduran...
Updated: May 16, 2014
March 19, 2013, New York – In light of General John F. Kelly’s testimony tomorrow before the House Armed Services Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to...
May 26, 2010, New York – Today, United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis appointed former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau the special master to oversee and expedite the...
February 3, Boston – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged the First Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)...
On June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court held in Rasul v. Bush , that the nearly-600 men imprisoned by the U.S. government in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba had a right of access to the federal courts, via habeas...
Updated: November 28, 2007
Please join CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy for a film screening and panel discussion about "Doctors of the Dark Side" at Brooklyn Law School. The acclaimed documentary “Doctors of the...
Updated: October 17, 2012
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