Kinoy v. District of Columbia is a lawsuit in which CCR, joined by bar associations, law professors, and lawyers throughout the country, came to Arthur Kinoy’s defense, arguing that attorneys have...
McSurely v. McClellan is a case that challenged congressional immunity for wrongdoing with regards to the illegal seizure and copying of written documents from the home of voting rights activists...
Crumsey v. Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a lawsuit seeking an injunction and monetary and punitive damages from the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of five Chattanooga women injured during a shooting...
...“Under international law, the United States – and responsible U.S. citizens, including and up to the President – can be held accountable for their role in furthering genocide,” the report stated...
Hamer v. Campell is a civil rights case which Fannie Lou Hamer brought against Cecil Campbell, the circuit clerk of Mississippi, for denying her and other Black people the right to register and vote...
We pushed the noxious moral boulder of Guantanamo a few feet last week but have so much farther to go. As President Obama vacationed in Hawaii, he okayed the transfer of five detainees from the...
Clavir v. Levi is a case brought against the FBI for illegal surveillance activities, and was instrumental in revealing the extent and the danger of FBI surveillance methods, as well as setting a...
Mohammed Kamin’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) proceedings were part of an administrative process created to review the cases of those Guantánamo detainees who are neither already cleared for release...
Two progressive organizations that have often shared a path during their past half-centuries of existence — one a social activist coalition, the other a legal advocacy group that often defends such...
Jules Lobel, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is the lead attorney representing Pelican Bay prisoners in a lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement in California prisons...
