Pam Spees of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Barbara Blaine of SNAP say the Catholic Church and Pope Francis are not serious about addressing the church's on-going struggles with child...
Updated: October 1, 2015
December 11, 2015Arab and Muslim former detainees who say they faced harsh jail conditions due to their faith and ethnicity following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks can pursue a lawsuit against former top U.S. law...
July 31, 2019...Though the interim final rule on asylum-seekers went into effect immediately, the ACLU, Southern Poverty Center, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit challenging it last week...
Updated: September 10, 2008
American Constitution Society Symposium “Access to Justice in Federal Courts” Panel discussion: Effects of the Iqbal and Twombly cases Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Symposium;...
Updated: December 11, 2009
June 11, 2015The U.S. government recently removed four law-abiding Muslim men from the no-fly list just days before a New York federal district court hears their case, scheduled for Friday. Tanvir v. Lynch...
June 17, 2015The climate of "hysteria" following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks may have led Attorney General John Ashcroft to treat undocumented Muslims and Arabs as potential terrorists based on the thinnest of...
August 15, 2015President Barack Obama’s administration opposes the release of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, who has never been charged with a crime, weighs around 75 pounds, and is near death. But the administration...
August 20, 2015On Aug. 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) blocked the release from the Guantánamo Bay prison of Tariq Ba Odah, a gravely ill detainee who was cleared for transfer by the Guantánamo Review Task...
October 11, 2017WASHINGTON — American military officials at the Guantánamo Bay prison recently hardened their approach to hunger-striking prisoners, detainees have told their lawyers, and are allowing protesters to...
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