A case brought under the Alien Tort Statute for extrajudicial killing and persecution on behalf of the parents of Isis Obed Murillo, in partnership with El Comité de Familiares de Detenidos...
Updated: December 30, 2014
February 5, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Last night, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Dr. Steven Salaita over the American Studies Association’s (ASA) resolution to endorse the call to...
Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ) and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
Updated: January 17, 2024
Todd v. Panjaitan is a case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 1994 which charged Indonesian General Sinton Pangaitan with human rights abuses. In September 1992, CCR filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
August 14, 2008, New York – The Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an extremely rare order that the case of Canadian rendition victim Maher Arar would be heard en banc by all of the active judges...
STATEMENT OF VINCENT WARREN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS END RACIAL PROFILING IN AMERICA HEARING, SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL...
Updated: April 17, 2012
June 2008The fight for detainees is costly and time consuming for Wilmer Hale law firm, part of the defense coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights. You can access the article here .
August 30, 2013 – In response to signals from the Obama administration that it will pursue U.S. military intervention in Syria in the wake of attacks last week, the Center for Constitutional...
December 21, 2017This week, the New York City Council voted on two critical policing bills. The first, Intro 541-C, was part of the Right to Know Act , a package of legislation aimed at protecting the civil and human...
August 25, 2016I joined the Center for Constitutional Rights through the Ella Baker Summer Fellowship Program to understand better how I, when I become a lawyer, can be more responsive and accountable to social...
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