November 12, 2015, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Loevy & Loevy announced the settlement of Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of...
To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
Greenfield Louisiana relying on illegal rezoning ordinance to try to build massive grain terminal on land in historic Black community May 19, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – An...
Extends Settlement to End Indefinite Solitary Confinement in California January 28, 2019, Eureka – Late Friday, a federal judge found that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...
Today we have filed an appeal to the D.C. Circuit in Aref v. Holder , marking the latest chapter in an eight-year challenge to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive “Communications Management Units...
As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out “targeted...
January 7, 2010. From The Guardian.co.uk The US security company Blackwater agreed today to pay compensation over the killing of Iraqi civilians by company guards accused of reckless disregard for...
The filing comes after the government failed to respond to a FOIA request demanding urgent transparency over President Trump’s illegal strikes December 9, 2025, New York – The American Civil...
Rights Group: Settler Rentals Are Discriminatory, Settlements Are War Crimes March 18, 2019, Wilmington, Delaware – Today, Palestinian landowners and West Bank residents filed to intervene in a...
