On May 24, 2010 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted Mr. Cardenas’ petition for review. The court vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ 8-6 en banc decision...
August 2008"[On the morning of April 7, 2003] police immediately cordoned off the street and allowed no one to enter or leave. Then, without any announcement, they started arresting all the protesters on...
Attend a discussion celebrating the publication of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror by Professor David Cole, CCR Board member and Jules Lobel, CCR Vice President. 3:45 PM...
Updated: October 18, 2007
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will moderate this panel during the Metropolitan Black Bar Association Immigration Town Hall. The town hall will examine recent changes to American...
Updated: June 20, 2017
February 2014Muslim Americans and civil rights groups are criticizing a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslim Americans in New Jersey...
Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
Updated: August 14, 2018
June 17, 2015I’ve written at some length in the past about judicial hostility to damages suits brought by victims of allegedly unlawful post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. I may have to rethink some of that...
July 10, 2015A sharp drop in the number of stop-and-frisk encounters by the New York City Police Department might be due to officers' uncertainty over the law, a court-appointed monitor told a federal judge...
October 13, 2015The NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities in New Jersey evokes memories of Japanese internment camps and spying on protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, an appeals court ruled Tuesday,...
December 11, 2015A deeply divided federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday kept alive a lawsuit against former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for allegedly approving mistreatment of...
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