On September 5, 2012, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, plaintiff Muhammad Salah, a U.S. citizen residing in Illinois, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of...
March 26, 2012, Jerusalem, New York - New photographic and video evidence made public today for the first time by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) indicates that controversial archeological...
New York and Washington, DC—April 13, 2009 - The Obama administration should take immediate steps to declassify and release documents that would allow the American public to understand the truth...
A lawsuit filed today seeks to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Politicians, industry and law enforcement too long employed the rhetoric and apparatus of national security to...
It is with a very heavy heart that we write to tell you of a great loss to our family. Today, we lost one of the great social justice warriors of our time, Michael Ratner. In July 2015, Michael fell...
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall ) It was during the escalating violence of Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s that our client Djamel Ameziane left in search of a better life. He lived in...
Temporary restraining order seeks to safeguard rights during October 7 National March to Protect Trans Youth September 29, 2023 – Today, a group of trans and non-binary people asked a federal court...
Dr. Ron Daniels, photo credit: ibw21.org As we commemorate the 55 th anniversary of the founding of the Center of Constitutional Rights, it is important to reflect on the origins—the roots of this...
October 1, 2012, New York – Today, while a federal judge heard comments on the fairness of his most recent rulings in the landmark case on racial disparities in the New York City Fire...
Imagine a government that kidnaps , tortures , rapes , and kills . Now imagine one that forces people into slavery . These horrors sound like things that happen to people who live in far away...
