Periodically, we gather significant developments and updates from the Center for Constitutional Rights in a concise newsletter that can bring a reader up to speed on work around all of our cases and...
Updated: March 15, 2023
Settlement preserves landmark 2018 verdict; ex-president and defense minister to compensate families of people killed by military [ En Español Abajo] September 28, 2023 – Bolivia’s former president...
On May 3, 2007, Time Magazine announced that Canadian rendition victim and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Maher Arar has made this year's Time 100, a "list of 100 men and women...
After nine weeks of testimony challenging the constitutionality of the New York City Police Department's practice of unlawful stops and frisks, CCR’s historic Floyd et al. v. the City of New...
Updated: May 16, 2013
Please join CCR to pack the courtroom for trial in our landmark case challenging the New York City Police Department’s practice of unlawful stops and frisks, Floyd et al. v. the City of New...
Updated: May 29, 2013
New York, NY, January 31, 2008 – Today, in federal court in Manhattan, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is filing a companion case to its ground breaking racial profiling case, Daniels et...
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...
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