December 14, 2017...In a statement released on Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented plaintiffs in the litigation, acknowledged that the NYPD has made progress on developing new policies...
May 16, 2019...To achieve reunification, Silane embarked on a legal battle involving the ACLU, the DOJ, the Center for Constitutional Rights and eventually applied for injunctive relief in the SDNY to facilitate...
On January 15, 2020, Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado will join four other practitioners and scholars to discuss non-police/non-prisoner Section 1983 claims,...
Updated: January 14, 2020
December 2, 2021...Cases of missing Black people remain unresolved four times longer than those of white people. The recent disappearance of white travel vlogger, Gabby Petito, highlighted the dramatic differences...
August 24, 2023...Samah Sisay, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, accused the department’s Neighborhood Safety Teams—a uniformed unit deployed in high-risk areas to combat gun violence—of...
Join CCR Staff Attorney Omar Farah at the Patois Film Festival in New Orleans! "Waiting for Fahd" will be screened as a part of the Uniting Struggles Program, alongside "Queering...
Updated: March 18, 2015
THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY: CITIZENS AND THE GROWTH OF EXECUTIVE POWER. The Bush/Cheney administration has thoroughly reshaped the presidency. Unprecedented exercise of executive authority and secrecy...
Updated: November 10, 2008
June 9, 2015In the summer of 2014, beginning on July 8, Israel launched a 50 day military operation against Gaza, dubbed Operation Protective Edge. People around the world were horrified by the images of carnage...
November 13, 2015Th e University of Illinois has approved a six-figure settlement for Steven Salaita to end two lawsuits he filed against the university for rescinding a tenured job offer due to his intemperate and...
October 3, 2016When a federal judge declared the New York police’s version of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional in 2013, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other fans of the practice predicted the murder rate would soar...
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