CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Britney Wilson will join a panel discussion as part of the University of Pennsylvania Law School's public interest week. The conversation will be alongside other UPenn Law...
Updated: February 24, 2017
July 12, 2017An immigrant-rights organization, with the backing of two other groups, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday accusing Customs and Border Protection of “systematically” blocking people seeking asylum in...
Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
January 11, 2018Few things could more appropriately commemorate Thursday's 16th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility than a new lawsuit filed by 11 of the 41 detainees still in US...
January 11, 2018As of today, January 11, 2018, the United States has used its Guantanamo Bay facility for 16 years to detain people it alleges pose a security threat without charge or fair trial. The number of...
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...
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