This report, released by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September 2015, documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights...
Updated: February 29, 2016
One hot August night in 2006, in New York’s Greenwich Village, a group of young African-American lesbian friends are violently and sexually threatened by an older man. They defend themselves...
Updated: May 30, 2014
November 2014A decision is expected any day in the grand jury investigation of Darren Wilson, whose August 9 killing of Michael Brown uncorked an endless wave of grief and anger among Ferguson's black population...
A federal lawsuit that challenges the Air Force's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that discriminates against LGBT members of the military.
Updated: June 30, 2009
Blackman v. Holder is one of several cases in which the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted amicus briefs in support of non-citizens seeking relief from immigration detention. It involves a...
Updated: November 27, 2013
In The Nation Magazine v. Department of Defense , The Nation magazine along with the Center for Constitutional Rights charged the DOD with violating the First and Fifth Amendments in its...
Updated: October 9, 2007
In September 1988, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) won a significant victory for the Nicaraguan humanitarian aid campaign. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas did...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Powell v. McCormack is a 1960’s government misconduct case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Adam Clayton Powell, claiming that the House of Representatives...
Updated: October 22, 2007
The Nation v. Haig was a case which defended the right of Americans to receive Cuban publications.
Updated: October 22, 2007
Finley v. NEA challenged the decency provision in government grants to artists through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In September 1990, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-...
Updated: December 11, 2007
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