September 15, 2009, New Orleans, LA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted an amicus brief to the Louisiana Supreme Court in support of Bruce Wallace, a petitioner who alleges...
June 30, 2010, Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Agriculture Committee voted on House Resolution 4645, legislation that would lift the travel ban to Cuba. The United States has maintained...
February 26, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a case challenging the...
CCR and Palestine Legal wrote a letter to the City University of New York (CUNY) on April 25, 2018, informing the college that the City College of New York’s (CCNY) cancellation of a May 3 event...
U.S. victims seek money to satisfy judgments against Taliban, but those are sovereign funds and Taliban is not recognized government, judge says August 29, 2022, New York – A federal judge found that...
“Vatican Falls” A Staged Reading to Benefit Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) By Frank J. Avella Directed by Laura Caparrotti Based on factual material, "Vatican...
This page contains summaries and transcripts from each day of the Floyd v. City of New York trial. The transcript is at the end of each day’s update. #NYPDonTrial ul.drawers,ul.drawers ul{...
All day yesterday I got text messages from queer friends. “Are you OK?” “OMG it could have been me.” “I had two friends who were there.” “How are you holding up?” “I used to go to Pulse all the time...
CCR’s Yemeni American Justice Initiative (YAJI) is a project that aims to address the systemic obstacles faced by Yemeni-Americans and their families due to the heightened scrutiny directed at those...
Practice of Guaranteed Minimums, 93 Percent for Private Companies, Found Far More Prevalent Than Initially Thought June 16, 2016, Washington, D.C. and New York – Today, Detention Watch Network (DWN)...