October 9, 2018...Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled in 2013 that the law violated the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens , and that the practice was “racially discriminatory” because of the disproportionate numbers of...
It’s a question our legal team gets asked all the time: What is it like visiting Guantánamo? From the food options on the island to why it’s important to keep fighting against the continued...
Updated: September 8, 2021
November 20, 2018, Guantánamo – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) to recommend that Guled Hassan Duran be cleared for release from...
May 30, 2017..."I think really at the end of the day, what we need to see in not only the New York City Police Department, but in police departments around the country is really a culture change, that we move...
August 20, 2018... As a recipient of the Harriet Pilpel/Planned Parenthood Fellowship within the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program , Watson interned in her third year with the Center for Constitutional...
December 16, 2008, New York – In response to the safe return home from Guantanamo of three of the men who were at the center of this year’s Supreme Court case ruling in favor of the...
The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay a $15.5 million settlement to avoid a trial over its alleged involvement in human rights violations in the Niger Delta. The case was brought on...
Updated: August 16, 2013
March 6, 2020...Legal experts following the case also welcomed the ruling. “Today, the International Criminal Court breathed new life into the mantra that 'no one is above the law’ and restored some hope that...
Washington, D.C. – A panel of judges in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the government’s appeal of District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina’s order issued six weeks ago that 17...
September 17, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA – Today, United States District Judge Gary L. Lancaster ruled today on a suit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil...
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