October 2008One month after the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program was disclosed by the New York Times in December 2005, we sued to put an end to it. In the two and a half years since then, an ACLU suit (...
May 2007Deputy director of Guantanamo's legal office sent out a list of detainees names to CCR, after its request to the Defense Department was denied
October 2009CCR legal director Bill Quigley discusses police conduct at G20 protests.
May 2010On April 20, unnoticed by any media outlet whatsoever, a Libyan prisoner at Guantánamo, Omar Mohammed Khalifh (also identified as Omar Abu Bakr) lost his habeas corpus petition.
December 2014Our political leaders should not begin to offer solutions for a problem if they won’t even name it: systemic, institutional racism exists in police forces throughout our country. http://www...
Bandele v. City of New York was a federal civil rights lawsuit brought against the City of New York and three NYPD officers in 2007. It charges that the defendants falsely arrested and imprisoned the...
Updated: January 20, 2010
April 2009For years, the 600 men imprisoned at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan largely escaped public notice. While the detainees at Guantanamo Bay roused the ire of critics of the Bush administration...
Join us for a community-centered online briefing with Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorneys Jules Lobel and Samuel Miller following the court argument for Ashker v...
Updated: May 8, 2020
NOW v. WABC-TV is a lawsuit in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of NOW challenged the license renewal of WABC-TV in New York City on grounds of sexual discrimination. In the...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Bertha Social Justice Institute Director Purvi Shah will moderate a panel at the Queer Dreams national conference on Saturday, October 5th. What: Restructuring Leadership Beyond Diversity &...
Updated: October 4, 2013
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