A state judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that accused St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne of refusing to release public records related to trips he and some of his deputies took to North...
...“It’s clear that a man who thinks we should water-board terror suspects even if it doesn’t work, because ‘they deserve it, anyway,’ has no qualms about keeping every last detainee in Guantánamo,...
... Below is the text of the letter sent to Defense Secretary James Mattis. Click here to download the pdf, including footnotes, of the Guantánamo Bay letter . ... Sincerely, Beth D. Jacob Counsel...
... But Center for Constitutional Rights lawyer Pamela C. Spees, who is heading SMUG’s legal team, said it’s no win for Lively. The minister and his lawyers “clearly wanted the language taken out,”...
A human rights law firm Thursday won access to documents reflecting a Louisiana sheriff’s office participation in the response to 2016 protests against a North Dakota crude oil pipeline. The state...
...In December, a Louisiana judge ruled that the company had the right to seize land but had failed to properly follow legal procedures. Louisiana is one of the few states that allow oil companies to...
... Two Palestinian Americans, as well as two Palestinian villages, filed counterclaims to the Shurat Hadin suit. The villages lay claim to the land that two of the plaintiffs’ Airbnb rentals sit on...
...“Detention without charge under the laws of war is meant to be finite, temporary, and exceptional — but that exception is becoming the rule. We’re now talking about a claim that detention can last...
...“CBP officials are certainly emboldened under Trump,” Diala Shamas, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, told The Nation . “We talk about the Muslim ban a lot, and for good...
...In Tijuana, there were roughly 9,600 names on the list, according to Al Otro Lado, a binational organization advocates for immigrants’ rights that provides pro-bono legal services to migrants...
