CCR filed an amicus brief to the Louisiana Supreme Court in State of Lousiana v. Wallace, 200-KK-1621. The amicus was the result of a campaign and survey coordinated by CCR to observe every New...
Updated: August 5, 2010
On April 19, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights and No More Deaths jointly filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Border...
Updated: November 15, 2024
The Center for Constitional Rights seeks damages from the United States government pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil. The adminstrative claim describes...
Updated: July 10, 2025
September 11, 2015The government is skirting the Geneva Conventions and other international human rights standards by refusing to immediately release Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni Guantánamo detainee suffering from severe...
April 2015" Lines began forming around 6 a.m. on Friday for general spectator seats at today's oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , the case in which the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold a...
December 11, 2020...This week, New York appellate judges heard a case against Fordham University. Students filed a suit against the school in 2016 after it refused to recognize the Students for Justice in Palestine (...
November 9, 2016In a precent-setting case, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) has accused Massachusetts pastor Scott Lively of crimes against humanity, claiming he convinced lawmakers in Uganda to pass draconian anti-...
Join UC Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine for South Africa v. Israel: A Discussion of the ICJ Ruling and Its Legal and Political Implications on Friday, March 8, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30p...
Updated: March 7, 2024
On the Black History Month episode of the Activist Files, Center for Constitutional Rights board member Meena Jagannath speaks with Rob Robinson , a formerly homeless community organizer and housing...
Updated: February 24, 2022
August 18, 2016After years of documented human rights abuses by the private prison industry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is finally ending its use of privately-run, for-profit prisons, the Washington Post...
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