A ruling by the State Court of Appeals overturned decisions by lower courts and ruled that a lower court must hear a suit filed by families of inmates, alleging that the state illegally charged...
Virginia: Richmond Prisoners will have access to a guide that teaches them how to file lawsuits under a settlement with the Department of Corrections. The National Lawyers Guild and the Center for...
Wallace v. Kern is a class action lawsuit filed by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of seven indigent inmates awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention. These men had filed a...
The City of New York said Friday that it would not hire a new class of firefighters using proposals laid out by a federal judge, who had ruled that the test used to screen Fire Department applicants...
Weeks after issuing a ruling that called the New York Fire Department a “stubborn bastion of white male privilege” based on its unsuccessful efforts at racial integration, a judge on...
"Hundreds of civil rights lawyers from across America are descending on Ferguson, Missouri as police and protesters prepare for a grand jury decision on whether to charge the officer who killed...
Register to join CCR President, Michael Ratner, former Guantanamo prisoners from around the world, and the family members of those still incarcerated, on the tenth anniversary since the opening of...
In a lawsuit filed today, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights allege the United States violated the constitution's guarantee of due process when it ordered the...
Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights joins the Up w/ Steve Kornacki panel to discuss the Department of Justice probe into the Associated Press’ phone records, and how a pattern is...
Fault Lines reporter Femi Oke went to Oakland, California, to better understand the history of surveillance and to see how far the government can go when its powers remain unchecked. Trouble seeing...
