May 2014Idaho became the latest state to pass an "ag-gag" law, punishing whistleblowing in animal agriculture, just this past February. In March, it became the latest state to get sued for doing so...
Join CUNY Law: Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession and the W. Haywood Burns Chair in Human and Civil Rights for a panel discussion among contributors of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated...
Updated: October 20, 2023
“Friends of the Court” Urge Judicial Review for Post-9/11 Abuses December 28, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Late yesterday, in the last case to be heard by the Supreme Court under President Obama, civil...
On June 7, 2007 CCR and five other leading human rights organizations published the names and details of 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret U.S. custody and whose current...
October 2014"The de Blasio administration filed the brief after two groups appealed a judge’s decision to toss a suit alleging the NYPD illegally spied on people at mosques, restaurants and school in...
August 2, 2023... A federal judge has again refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former Abu Ghraib inmates against a military contractor they accuse of being complicit in torture at the infamous Iraqi prison...
May 1, 2019...Recent amendments to the Arizona anti-BDS law remain inherently unconstitutional, legal experts say. Earlier this month, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal...
October 11, 2019...According to the Transgender Law Center, 3.8% of Missouri’s total adult population, or about 180,000 individuals, identifies as LGBTQ. The law center, along with the Center for Constitutional...
“Supreme Court Not a Reliable Source of Justice” September 23, 2020, New York – In advance of Donald Trump’s nomination to fill the seat of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
October 2008Montreal supporters of an an Algerian national who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years without being charged are calling on Canada to take him in...
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