January 4, 2016Law360, Washington (January 4, 2016, 9:30 PM ET) -- A Second Circuit panel on Monday blocked a suit, accusing high-level Bush administration officials of contributing to the abuse of immigrants...
Conditions at immigration detention centers are often atrocious, but Black immigrants face unique abuse solely because of their race. Reports from several detention centers in the South have...
Updated: November 15, 2021
October 5, 2023...So far, the only lawsuits able to advance have targeted military contractors. Those cases, too, face considerable obstacles. One such case, Al Shimari et al. v. CACI , has been slowly making its...
Please join leaders in the NYC police accountability movement for a press conference on Wednesday, September 24th at 12:00 pm on the steps of City Hall demanding that the joint reform process move...
Updated: September 19, 2014
August 17, 2012, New York – In response today’s ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and...
June 12, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and co-counsel issued the statement below responding to published accounts that the United States Department of...
Alexis Agathocleous is a Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on issues of mass incarceration, criminal justice, LGBTQ discrimination, gender justice,...
On Tuesday, September 1st we will be in court representing our Arizona partners, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Phoenix Metro, Mijente Support Committee, Puente Human Rights Movement, and the Arizona...
Updated: August 31, 2020
CJ Sandley is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where they focus on anti-carceral and racial injustice litigation. They are based in Birmingham, Alabama. Before joining...
Mark your calendars for the Review of Law and Social Change’s 2022 Colloquium: Resisting Settler Colonialism , held on February 9 and 10, 2022 from 4:30 - 8:00 p.m. ET. Join organizers, legal...
Updated: February 8, 2022
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