A federal judge has preliminarily approved New York City's agreement to pay $9.5 million in legal fees to the attorneys that represented black firefighters in a long-running discrimination case...
President Obama, hoping to finally meet his 2008 campaign pledge, sent Congress a plan Tuesday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and transfer up to 60 terrorism suspects to a yet unnamed U.S. prison...
The court-appointed monitor of NYPD stop-and-frisk practices has officially filed a new reporting form that encourages officers to write a narrative of the reasons for a stop instead of relying on...
A California animal rights activist who freed 2,000 minks from an Illinois fur farm in 2013 was sentenced on Wednesday to house arrest and ordered to pay $200,000 to the farm's owners, prosecutors...
Back in July, racial equity advocacy group Color of Change partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information related to the...
City Winery CEO Michael Dorf hosted a Passover Seder at Laugh Boston at the Westin Boston Waterfront on Sunday night. Among the many guests were stand-up comedian Joel Chasnoff , Israeli singer-...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)—a plaintiff in the case that wound up deeming stop-and-frisk unconstitutional—issued a press release stating that though "some progress has been made,"...
Muslim leaders and their lawyers say a settlement of legal claims that the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslims empowers them to prevent future abuse. The deal was announced...
... Using case numbers for Malkeet and Jasvir Singh from Guaderrama’s calendar for Wednesday, Texas Monthly found 15 sequentially numbered court cases that have been sealed by El Paso federal judges...
...Iliwat’s case reflects the broad latitude officials at the border have to deny entry to people, particularly Arabs and Muslims, said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
