May 4, 2020This is the second in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this moment of tens of thousands of lives lost , anti-Asian racism , and inequitable access to COVID-19 testing ,...
April 25, 2018Cross-posted from National Immigration Law Center . Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a legal challenge to President Trump’s travel ban, which bars nationals of several Muslim-...
October 20, 2021Colonialism is generally not a topic of discussion or analysis in constitutional law studies in the United States. Yet U.S. constitutional law has both shaped and been shaped by projects of colonial...
June 5, 2019... But these hunger strikes in H Unit didn’t prompt investigations into conditions there or condemnations from the American Medical Association or calls from elected officials about the need for...
Moratorium Requested on NYPD Social-Distancing Enforcement May 26, 2020, New York, NY - Today, the attorneys behind two of the three landmark class action lawsuits that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and...
On International Workers’ Day, suit challenges constitutionality of government actions to punish resistance to forced labor among majority-Black prison population May 1, 2024, Montgomery, AL – On...
August 8, 2016It’s been almost fifteen years since 9/11, and the sweep of Arab, South Asian, and Muslim men from the streets of New York and New Jersey in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Those of you who...
Hany Ibrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up...
Updated: September 8, 2021
December 18, 2015As a Japanese lawyer studying in the United States, I came across CCR’s case Hassan v. City of New York , a lawsuit challenging the blanket surveillance and religious profiling of Muslim communities...
This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Wells Dixon, who is currently in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba visiting one of his clients. January 11, 2012 Today marks ten...
Updated: September 8, 2021
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