On December 10, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Innocence Project submitted an amicus brief in a Second Circuit lawsuit, Darboe v. Barr, challenging the removal order of Ousman...
Updated: December 11, 2020
March 6, 2023...“It is gratifying to be vindicated in this way,” Ashker said in a statement released by his legal team, which also included the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties...
Coauthored with the NRDC, ACLU of Mississippi, Forward Justice, Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign, and People’s Advocacy Institute, this fact sheet highlights the work of Jackson community groups as...
Updated: January 19, 2024
February 2007A ruling by the State Court of Appeals overturned decisions by lower courts and ruled that a lower court must hear a suit filed by families of inmates, alleging that the state illegally charged...
Virginia: Richmond Prisoners will have access to a guide that teaches them how to file lawsuits under a settlement with the Department of Corrections. The National Lawyers Guild and the Center for...
Wallace v. Kern is a class action lawsuit filed by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of seven indigent inmates awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention. These men had filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
The City of New York said Friday that it would not hire a new class of firefighters using proposals laid out by a federal judge, who had ruled that the test used to screen Fire Department applicants...
November 2011Weeks after issuing a ruling that called the New York Fire Department a “stubborn bastion of white male privilege” based on its unsuccessful efforts at racial integration, a judge on...
December 2014"Hundreds of civil rights lawyers from across America are descending on Ferguson, Missouri as police and protesters prepare for a grand jury decision on whether to charge the officer who killed...
Register to join CCR President, Michael Ratner, former Guantanamo prisoners from around the world, and the family members of those still incarcerated, on the tenth anniversary since the opening of...
Updated: January 4, 2012
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