On November 19, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a letter to San Francisco Police Department Chief Suhr and Members of the San Francisco Police Commission, expressing...
Updated: February 4, 2013
April 17, 2016The U.S. has transferred nine Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility to Saudi Arabia. The group represented just over 10 percent of the population that remained at Guantanamo...
In the Matter of Randall , the INS invoked the McCarran-Walter Act’s ideological exclusion provision to force Margaret Randall, a prominent poet and essayist who was born in the United States, to...
Updated: October 9, 2007
United States v. United States District Court , briefed and argued before the Supreme Court by CCR in February 1972, arose out of a federal conspiracy prosecution in which the government admitted...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Douglas v. Holloman is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) defended New York City guidelines on sterilization procedures on behalf of women and groups concerned about...
Updated: October 9, 2007
In the 1960s, particularly after HUAC produced Operation Abolition, a film meant to justify the committee’s existence which inadvertently underscored its high-handed tactics, people increasingly...
Updated: October 9, 2007
United States v. Brett Bursey is an appeal brief filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and cooperating attorney Lewis Pitts, charging that the Secret Service violated its own...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Alwan for the Arts Presents Accountability for Torture and Rendition in the War on Terror- A Book Reading and Discussion with Professor David Cole, Introduced and Moderated by Issa Mikel Wednesday,...
Updated: November 24, 2008
On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, the constitutionality of a Washington State law protecting citizens from meritless lawsuits that undermine free speech rights will be defended in oral arguments before...
Updated: January 20, 2015
Taylor v. Hayes is a civil case that went up to the Supreme Court in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) contested Kentucky attorney Dan Taylor’s four-and-a half-year jail sentence for...
Updated: October 9, 2007
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