... In their motion, presented by lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights and local attorney Bill Quigley, advocates for the Descendants project are seeking a temporary restraining order...
...After protests erupted near Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline and Bayou Bridge beginning in 2016, 18 states including Texas, Pennsylvania and South Dakota have introduced bills similar to...
Judge Rules Laws Do Not Apply to Private For-Profit Corporations January 25, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, Louisiana groups argued before a state court that Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC’s (BBP) land...
Global Tel*Link (GTL) is the current telephone provider for collect calls from NY State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) prisons. The contract for telephone service was sold to GTL in 2007...
Seventy-five miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas, in the expanse of desert between the US/Mexico border and nestled between oil boomtowns of yesteryear, is Dilley, the epicenter of a new battle...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights senior staff attorney, Chinyere Ezie , at the 2019 Lavender Law ® Conference & Career Fair as she the shifting nature of the...
The private contractors are accused of killing 17 unarmed civilians in Baghdad in a 2007 case that sparked an outcry. A judge says using statements from the Americans was a violation of their rights.
St. James Parish Council broke own rules to okay expansion into protected wetlands, court finds in Louisiana environmental justice case May 15, 2025, Gretna, LA – Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the...
Albany, NY, September 8, 2008 – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenges the constitutionality of the unlawful tax levied on families who received collect calls at exorbitant...
Court denied appeal by company that sought to build a massive grain elevator that threatened health and heritage of historic Black community in Wallace, Louisiana April 2, 2025, New Orleans – The...
