...The landmark decision in the 2008 class-action lawsuit — a huge blow to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crime-fighting legacy — included hiring Zimroth, a private lawyer and former Manhattan...
... Traditionally, the CCRB defers allegations of profiling and bias-based policing to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. But with over 3,400 complaints filed between 2014 to 2021, only four were...
...Samah Sisay, a Center for Constitutional Rights lawyer who represented plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to Scheindlin’s ruling, said the Neighborhood Safety Teams should also be eliminated. “...
The U.S. Navy is investigating a complaint that seeks the evacuation of civilian and military lawyers from parts of the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following reports of cancer cases among...
Ending years of litigation, hunger strikes and contentious debate, California has agreed to move thousands of prison inmates out of solitary confinement. A legal settlement filed Tuesday between the...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present at the annual NACOLE conference, Confronting Systemic Injustice, in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Wednesday, September 28. NACOLE brings...
...Last month, the New York City-based Immigrant Defense Project, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, published an expansive report detailing patterns and practices of ICE raids...
...Take, for example, a lawsuit announced yesterday by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal, legal organizations that deal with progressive issues and with Palestinian advocacy,...
Legal experts were boggled by President Trump’s off-the-cuff comments on Wednesday about sending the terror suspect accused of killing eight people in New York to Guantanemo Bay. Trump, in his first...
...Darius Charney, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the litigation that curbed the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy , offered Chief Shea a three-item to-do list. To gain the trust of those...
