Cancer Alley residents are challenging St. James Parish Council’s decades-old practice of placing plants in majority-Black districts April 9, 2025, New Orleans – Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of...
February 14, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has decided to sign...
Join CCR and pack the court on Thursday, May 1, 2014 for oral arguments in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , CCR’s class action civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-...
Updated: April 17, 2014
Since 2011, there has been a marked proliferation of state laws targeting undercover investigations and whistleblowing in animal agriculture. These ag-gag laws vary, but all include one or more of...
Updated: December 3, 2019
Please join CCR from 6:30 pm - 9:00pm on March 12th to watch a short-film series that takes an in depth look at the Louisiana Water Protectors on the front lines of resisting Energy Transfer Partners...
Updated: February 28, 2018
On the 17th episode of “The Activist Files,” Communications Associate Josh Manson talks with Janice Dickerson and her attorney, Christopher Meeks, about the struggle to protect a historically Black...
Updated: March 7, 2023
January 16, 2018...“Eminent domain is an extraordinary and controversial power, and those most often burdened frequently lack the financial means and political clout to protect their rights in the process,” attorney...
Zee Scout is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, where she was a member of the Lambda Legal...
May 2009NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has been fighting for more than 13 years to make his late father's prediction come true. It will happen this month when relatives of victims of the Nigerian...
March 12, 2018...Pamela Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents anti-pipeline groups in Louisiana seeking to keep TigerSwan from operating in the state, said that large-scale...
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