A petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Khaled Abd el Ghabar Mohammed Othman by his family members in Yemen as “next friends” (the traditional mode of challenging detention by the executive...
Updated: November 25, 2015
Updated: January 28, 2010
WikiLeaks? WikiWhat? WikiWho? WikiWhy? A panel of constitutional law and civic policy experts discuss recent events surrounding the WikiLeaks phenomenon. Audience participation encouraged. Featuring...
Updated: February 10, 2011
On October 6, 2011, CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani testified before the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council. In this testimony, CCR asked the Committee on Public Safety to...
Updated: August 14, 2013
August 7, 2015Obama administration officials are divided over what to do about a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who has been on a hunger strike since February 2007 and now weighs less than 75 pounds, according...
November 12, 2015Steven Salaita will not be reinstated under the terms of an out of court settlement with the University of Illinois . The deal will pay Salaita $875,000 – about ten times the annual salary he would...
November 11, 2015Steven Salaita reached a $875,000 settlement with the University of Illinois after he sued the school for firing him because of his tweets during the war on Gaza last year. The university fired...
November 9, 2015Are there too many police or are there too few? In the months since Black Lives Matter activists first organized protests against police violence, the concept of over-policing has become key in...
April 4, 2016The legal challenge against Michigan’s emergency manager law on claims that it racially discriminates has only been bolstered by the Flint water crisis, according to the head of a national civil...
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