October 1, 2012, New York – Today, while a federal judge heard comments on the fairness of his most recent rulings in the landmark case on racial disparities in the New York City Fire...
June 21, 2018...“It’s horrible, but not surprising, that military contractors which have profited from the deaths of innocent civilians around the world would be hired to transport little children from their...
December 4, 2007, New York – The manual detailing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Guantánamo’s Camp Delta in 2004 was leaked and posted on Wikileaks . The Center for Constitutional Rights (...
January 13, 2010, New York, NY – Today, United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit charging the Fire Department of New York (...
November 2013By Erwin Chemerinsky November 5, 2013 Judges are human and sometimes getting caught up in the emotions of high profile cases causes them to make serious errors. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court...
Mr. Khalil Separately Appealed the Removal Order to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals May 15, 2026, New York — In light of new evidence of misconduct by the Trump Administration, Mahmoud Khalil’s...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to co-sponsor the War on Terror Film Festival , a month-long, virtual program organized by the Coalition for Civil Freedoms featuring 20 award-winning...
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September 26, 2013, Oakland – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal judge to grant class action status to a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary...
Slavery persists in U.S. prisons; incarcerated workers in Alabama are fighting to abolish it
October 13, 2015A federal appeals court in Philadelphia Tuesday reinstated a civil rights lawsuit over the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims, ruling that claimed public safety and national security concerns did not...
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