On behalf of Occupy Wall Street protestors, a group of New York civil liberties lawyers has issued the following letter to the CEO of Brookfield Office Properties, who recently requested NYPD...
March 2013" NEW YORK -- A New York City police officer testified Wednesday that he's already been labeled a rat and expects more retaliation from colleagues for testifying at a civil trial that the...
This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Monday, June 14, 2010 An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to...
Updated: June 23, 2010
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will be participating in a series of panels hosted by Rutgers School of Law - Newark entitled "The Art of Protest #BlackLivesMatter: Community Lawyering and...
Updated: March 18, 2016
Join Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz for a live briefing with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Since 1966, the Freedom of Information Act has given the...
Updated: June 21, 2019
April 22, 2015, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to a front-page story in The Washington Post about the Obama...
On November 27th, join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a viewing of American Son , a new Broadway play starring Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale. Following the performance, a community...
Updated: October 30, 2018
November 19, 2018In court today challenging Trump's asylum ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] We will be in court today along with the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center on our emergency challenge to Donald...
A habeas corpus case on behalf of Guled Hassan Duran, a native of Somalia.
Updated: November 15, 2024
November 28, 2017Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City terror attack on Oct. 31, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in federal court on Tuesday. Saipov, a 29-year-old legal U.S. resident, was...
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