Harris v. McRae is a class action lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenging federal restrictions on Medicaid funds for medically necessary abortions. In the wake of...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Monell v. Department of Social Services is a case in which the New York City Board of Education awarded compensation for female employees who had been forced to take maternity leave. This case, which...
Updated: October 22, 2007
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Muntaqim v. Coombe that challenged the state law which disenfranchised those...
Updated: October 22, 2007
The population of Hempstead, New York, which covers the heart of Long Island’s Nassau County, is 13 percent Black and Latino, but all of its six Republican council members lived in...
Updated: February 15, 2012
June 1, 2016This week, CCR welcomed its 2016 Class of Ella Baker Summer Legal Interns. Each year, CCR receives hundreds of applications from students around the world interested in learning from us and growing...
April 30, 2018The impact of Trump's Muslim ban on Yemeni-Americans [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Trump's Muslim Ban. As CCR Legal Worker Ibraham...
On Episode 29 of the Activist Files, communications assistant Lexi Webster speaks with TRANScending Barriers executive director Zahara Green and Abolitionist Law Center executive director Robert "...
Updated: November 18, 2025
On September 24, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed a lower court's decision to dismiss the case charging an Israeli official with war crimes for his role in dropping a one-ton...
On January 9, 2007, Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will argue that the New York State Court of Appeals should stop the state government and the telephone...
The Gregory H. Finger Racial Justice Fellowship was launched in May 2010 in honor of former CCR Executive Director, long-serving Board member, and former Board Chair Greg Finger. The Fellowship will...
Updated: February 11, 2011
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