October 2014"A federal appeals court on Friday rebuffed an effort by NYPD unions to keep alive an appeal of a ruling that found police stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional and ordered reforms. .....
November 2014"New York City can now move forward and implement its reform measures to overhaul the NYPD’s controversial practice of stop-and-frisk after a federal appeals court rejected police unions...
CCR Communications Director Dorothee Benz will speak on Civil Rights and the myth of religious liberty for LGBT communities at New Jersey City University on Tuesday, February 12th. What: Lecture and...
Updated: January 25, 2013
October 2014"A ruling by a federal appeals court panel Friday has ended the lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy. The panel granted the city's request to withdraw...
March 2012Jumaane D. Williams, NYC Council Member of the 45th Council District, discusses the need for reform in the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice.
May 2012Sikh and Muslim transit workers in New York City are celebrating the settlement of a federal lawsuit that will allow them to wear turbans on the job, in public and without affixing Metropolitan...
Albany, NY, September 8, 2008 – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenges the constitutionality of the unlawful tax levied on families who received collect calls at exorbitant...
November 2014"New York City police unions protesting the city's agreement to settle lawsuits on stop-and-frisk practices waited too long before trying to insert themselves into the high-profile litigation,...
February 2015"W hen freeing 2,000 minks from a mink farm, and painting “Liberation is love” on a barn are considered forms of terrorism, one has to stop and wonder what is going on.
September 1, 2015After decades of holding thousands of inmates in concrete, sometimes windowless isolation cells, where some stayed for 20 years or more, California prison officials are about to drastically reduce...
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