April 2013"In March of this year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared New York “the most immigrant-friendly city in the world.” The occasion: the signing of Local Laws 982 and 989, two pieces of...
August 2008"The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq. The...
October 31, 2013, New York – Today, the Court of Appeals granted the City of New York’s request for a stay of the joint remedial process ordered in the landmark class action lawsuit Floyd...
January 2012Lawrence struck down a Texas sodomy law and held that sexual intimacy at home is constitutionally protected under due process and privacy principles. Coming seventeen years after Bowers v. Hardwick...
August 18, 2016, New York – In response to the news that the Department of Justice will cease to use private prisons, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: CCR welcomes...
May 2010In a hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair testified that the President authorizes such operations if it...
June 17, 2015A US appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a claim against former attorney general John Ashcroft and other Justice Department officials, stemming from the abuse of Arab and Muslim men and others...
The Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will host an all-day conference examining how city policies and infrastructure work to promote or undermine health...
Updated: April 13, 2016
CCR is grateful for the important work and solidarity of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and we are honored to join in their 2016 Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Awards ceremony. CCR...
Updated: November 21, 2016
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join a panel discussion to address the migration issues in America under the Trump administration. For more information about the event, visit the MIT Center for...
Updated: February 24, 2017
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