On July 17, NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo put Eric Garner in a chokehold while others officers forced him to the ground and then stood by and watched him die - doing nothing while he said "I can'...
Updated: November 14, 2014
March 2014Ending a long legal saga that began back in 2005, the de Blasio administration has agreed to pay approximately $98 million in back pay, fringe benefits and interest to FDNY applicants who took two...
July 2014"Though it received scant attention at the time, with a grand total of one Congressperson opposing and one witness testifying against it, condemnation of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism...
Updated: June 16, 2008
June 30, 2017This piece was originally published on the American Constitution Society's ACSblog . Having litigated the case that would become Ziglar v. Abbasi for the last fifteen years, since the summer I...
You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over...
Updated: February 5, 2010
July 28, 2017I'm not the first person to investigate the place of games at Gitmo. Which was surprising to me, because in some ways, especially in the beginning, my investigation into the Detainee Library and its...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak at Fordham Law School about stereotyping, profiling and how it affects rights of Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities. Organized by Muslim Law...
Updated: February 20, 2013
January 2015"Last week, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) quietly published a final rule governing conditions and policies at the Communications Management Units (CMUs) -- two highly restrictive prison units...
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