On January 8, 2020, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Pamela Spees , senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, will represent the landowners in Bayou Bridge Pipeline...
Updated: January 7, 2020
Join us for First Wednesday on December 2nd, where we will highlight the victories of this year, discuss how CCR's wide-ranging work is connected, and take a moment to celebrate before...
Updated: December 7, 2015
Join the National Lawyers Guild Wednesday, December 6, 6 - 7:30 p.m. for a panel exploring the current conflict, including international and humanitarian law issues, the recent lawsuit filed in...
Updated: December 6, 2023
January 17, 2018On election night in 2015, a victorious John Bel Edwards said something he hadn't said during his campaign, something I hadn't expected. "We will prevail," he said during his victory speech, and...
January 17, 2018Opponents of the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline, a 163-mile crude oil line that would run from Lake Charles to St. James, filed suit against the pipeline’s backer Tuesday to make its documents public...
February 2, 2018...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
December 6, 2018A Louisiana judge ruled Thursday that a company building an oil pipeline through south Louisiana trespassed on the land of three people opposed to the project, but he allowed the work to continue...
November 6, 2020... “Yes, it was in 1789, but it is still on the books,” said Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights , which also filed an amicus brief in the case . “At the time that it was...
September 27, 2016In the days after the 9/11 attacks, Congress was asked to give President Bush the authority to use the military “to deter and preempt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the United...
September 7, 2023...“The documents that the Center for Constitutional Rights and Muslim Advocates are seeking production of would provide insight as to how many Afghan refugees remain at these sites, the U.S.’s role...
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