January 17, 2018On election night in 2015, a victorious John Bel Edwards said something he hadn't said during his campaign, something I hadn't expected. "We will prevail," he said during his victory speech, and...
January 17, 2018Opponents of the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline, a 163-mile crude oil line that would run from Lake Charles to St. James, filed suit against the pipeline’s backer Tuesday to make its documents public...
February 2, 2018...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
December 6, 2018A Louisiana judge ruled Thursday that a company building an oil pipeline through south Louisiana trespassed on the land of three people opposed to the project, but he allowed the work to continue...
May 31, 2019...Government actors have, it seems, endless reasons to shroud their actions in secrecy; that’s why tools like the Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws are so critical. But it turns...
July 12, 2019...The Department of Investigation, an independent city watchdog, found officers received nearly 2,500 biased complaints between 2014 and 2018. A third of the cases were investigated by the DOI,...
September 18, 2019... As of September 11, 2019, the asylum ban is in full effect after the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a ruling by a federal district court in northern California that had preliminarily enjoined the...
November 21, 2019...The Center for Constitutional Rights , along with the New York Civil Liberties Union, led the charge against the City in the federal stop and frisk litigation. “Let’s be clear, the NYCLU’s...
On January 25, 2020, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren , will join the Northeast Region of the National Black Law Students Association (NEBLSA) as the...
Updated: January 14, 2020
October 2, 2020... Lawsuit payouts are not withdrawn from the police budget and resources, but rather are taken from the city’s broader fund. As a result, taxpayers are burdened with these costs — in addition to...
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