St. James Parish Council broke own rules to okay expansion into protected wetlands, court finds in Louisiana environmental justice case May 15, 2025, Gretna, LA – Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the...
More than a year ago the Supreme Court ruled in the Center for Constitutional Rights case Rasul v. Bush that the Guantanamo detainees have a right to file habeas corpus petitions in U.S. courts...
Feb 16, 2011 – Today, advocates made available excepts of 15,000 pages of documents released following litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Center for Constitutional...
October 2014" NEW YORK -- Lawmakers and advocates rejoiced Friday after a federal appeals court
February 2009Isolation and harsh conditions at Guantanamo Bay have driven a Syrian prisoner to attempt suicide, repeatedly bang his head against the wall and show other signs of "mental deterioration,"...
January 2014Evangelical advocates, having failed here, are finding friendlier audiences all over the world. Long before President Obama selected three gay athletes to lead the American delegation to the Sochi...
February 2007As the NYC council and criminal justice advocates examine the NYPD's stop-and-frisk statistics report, experts insist that the department still hasn't fulfilled its reporting requirements.
Conversations with Lawyers December Events "The Supreme Court and Public Opinion" with Barry Friedman, Esq. Barry Friedman is a Vice Dean and the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at New...
Updated: November 20, 2009
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir will discuss his work in Egypt with HRW over the last year, where he was a fellow and the lead researcher and author of “All According to Plan,” a...
Updated: October 17, 2014
A civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the use of "stop and frisk" searches by Philadelphia police, alleging that the policy is violating the rights of blacks...
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