December 11, 2015Arab and Muslim former detainees who say they faced harsh jail conditions due to their faith and ethnicity following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks can pursue a lawsuit against former top U.S. law...
July 31, 2019...Though the interim final rule on asylum-seekers went into effect immediately, the ACLU, Southern Poverty Center, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit challenging it last week...
Updated: September 10, 2008
American Constitution Society Symposium “Access to Justice in Federal Courts” Panel discussion: Effects of the Iqbal and Twombly cases Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Symposium;...
Updated: December 11, 2009
June 17, 2015The climate of "hysteria" following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks may have led Attorney General John Ashcroft to treat undocumented Muslims and Arabs as potential terrorists based on the thinnest of...
October 11, 2017WASHINGTON — American military officials at the Guantánamo Bay prison recently hardened their approach to hunger-striking prisoners, detainees have told their lawyers, and are allowing protesters to...
November 29, 2017An analysis of the nation’s 201 immigration detention facilities contracted through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is raising concerns about inadequate standards,...
June 27, 2018...This is the process many Yemenis must undergo to obtain US visas, explains Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. The center oversees the Yemeni...
September 1, 2015..."I think there is a deepening movement away from solitary confinement in the country and I think this settlement will be a spur to that movement," Jules Lobel, the inmates' lead attorney and...
February 1, 2018Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses President Trump’s move to keep open the controversial military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He speaks with...
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