A Brief history of the Alien Tort Statute Adopted as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has been part of U.S. law for more than 200 years, and allows non-U.S. citizens to...
Updated: February 6, 2017
Save the Date: September 30, 2009 Lunch discussion with Katherine Gallagher, CCR Staff Attorney and Laura Raymond, CCR International Human Rights Associate. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
Updated: September 23, 2009
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney will speak on a panel at the Criminal Justice in the 21st Century conference for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Brennan Center for...
Updated: December 3, 2013
November 20, 2020... Versions of both of these approaches were used successfully in New York City in Floyd et al. v. City of New York , which famously forced the city to rein in its stop-and-frisk program. In that...
On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the lead plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights case White Hat v. Landry , Anne White Hat—a Sicangu, Lakota Water Protector based in...
Updated: September 19, 2022
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to be a member of the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST): join FAST, the National Immigration Project, and the National Immigrant Justice Center on...
Updated: May 12, 2024
February 9, 2009, New York – In response to the position Obama’s Justice Department took today in a key rendition case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Mohamed et al v...
December 12, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report analyzing the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk data for January 2010...
On Friday October 24th the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia will hear opening arguments from counsel of the defendants CACI International Inc and CACI Premier...
Updated: October 23, 2008
On Friday, July 31, at 12:00 p.m. ET, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren will join New York State Senator James Sanders Jr. and several community partners via...
Updated: July 30, 2020
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