Since 1999, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting on the ground and in the courts to end the exploitative telephone contract between New York State and MCI/Verizon which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
January 2010The legal problem cited by the judge when he threw out the indictments against Blackwater guards was obvious to American government lawyers within days of the shooting. “It is regrettable that the...
CCR is proud to partner with Directors and Producers for the U.S. premiere of " Dirty Wars ", a documentary film that follows investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill as he explores the...
Updated: June 28, 2013
September 11, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) filed a complaint in the United States...
March 29, 2019...Two Palestinians in the United States are suing Israeli settlers for profiting from property stolen from their families in the occupied West Bank, by listing them on the home rental website Airbnb...
The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes the news that its motion for leave to appeal to the highest court of the state, the Court of Appeals, was granted in Walton v. NYSDOCS. The lawsuit seeks...
Three CCR staff will present at three different workshop sessions happening at the same time on Saturday, February 23rd from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. The Rebellious Lawyering (RebLaw) Conference is an...
Updated: February 21, 2013
From DemocracyNow.org: "Apart from the illegality of it, it was just too massive," Ratner says. "It would have been a bloodbath. The idea that they were going to come in here when...
Updated: October 15, 2011
“It is an injustice that families of inmates are forced to pay this backdoor tax,” said Assemblyman Aubry, Chair of the Assembly Correction Committee. “This is a public safety issue because it...
June 2010"The United States bears a huge responsibility to make reparations to people of Afghanistan and Pakistan after pursuing nearly 10 years of destructive warfare that has destabilized both...
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