In letter to St. James Parish Council, groups say ordinance reflects discriminatory and deadly land use system that has roots in slavery, threaten legal action if ordinance is not withdrawn St. James...
June 13, 2010, New York, NY – Yesterday, the United States’ first prosecution under the little known Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was derailed when Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the...
January 16, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, Louisiana groups represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit against Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC to make its...
St. James Parish’s discriminatory land use system violates the Constitution, has roots in slavery January 28, 2026, New Orleans – Groups representing Black residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this short film-series and talk-back, which will take place in Room 223 . The #NoBayouBridge short-film series and panel discussion will detail how a fight to...
The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights this morning filed a lawsuit in federal court against several Obama officials, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David...
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...
On May 26, 2026, the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a public comment asking the Federal Energy Commission to deny a certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the construction...
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-...
