May 14, 2021...The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which filed the lawsuit on Diamond’s behalf, applauded the Justice Department filing. “In essence, the DOJ confirms that...
May 31, 2023...A positive outcome of the litigation will end up benefiting the lives of all parish residents, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is among the groups representing plaintiffs...
August 2008"The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq. The...
CCR Attorney Sunita Patel will speak on a panel alongside partners from Latino Justice/PRLDEF, NY Drug Policy Alliance and Vera Institute of Justice about CCR's Floyd case and its impact on New York...
Updated: November 8, 2013
What: The Right To Dissent Who: Frances Fox Piven and Michael Ratner When: 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 21st Where: Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck; 6422 Montgomery Street (Rt. 9) Please join us...
Updated: October 11, 2011
October 31, 2013, New York – Today, the Court of Appeals granted the City of New York’s request for a stay of the joint remedial process ordered in the landmark class action lawsuit Floyd...
January 2012Lawrence struck down a Texas sodomy law and held that sexual intimacy at home is constitutionally protected under due process and privacy principles. Coming seventeen years after Bowers v. Hardwick...
August 18, 2016, New York – In response to the news that the Department of Justice will cease to use private prisons, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: CCR welcomes...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for oral argument in Bronner v. Duggan , a lawsuit filed against the American Studies Association (ASA) and some of its former leaders for a 2013 resolution...
Updated: May 7, 2024
March 2009Among George W. Bush’s controversial legal maneuvers was a repackaging of the notion of “enemy combatant.” If the President determined a person was an “enemy combatant,” the Bush Justice lawyers...
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