November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
February 12, 2016In the morning of February 13, 1991, just before dawn, U.S. planes dropped two 2,000-pound “smart bombs” on a civilian shelter in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 400...
March 22, 2016Many members of Congress continue to battle the structures funding our immigration detention system. Last week, a group of 56 members of the House of Representatives renewed the call for an end to...
Bills are part of a broader trend to silence U.S. supporters of Palestinian rights April 28, 2016 – Today, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent copies of their report...
May 23, 2016Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California , California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is...
Court of Appeals Rejects Defendants’ Attempt to Have Case Dismissed June 17, 2016, Miami – More than 12 years after government-planned massacres in Bolivia killed 58 unarmed civilians, the Eleventh...
July 15, 2016Earlier this week, the New York Times broke the news that New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito would be working with the NYPD to revise the administrative regulations contained in the...
August 30, 2016It’s a hot summer in 1989, and the temperature in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn is not the only thing that is about to reach a boiling point. “Mother- Sisters always watching.” This...
September 16, 2016This week, the New York City Council passed Resolution No. 1058-A, which condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli human rights abuses and violations of...
The three companies that built, own, and operate the Dakota Acccess Pipeline in North Dakota—Phillips 66, Sunoco, and Energy Transfer Partners (ETP)—have formed the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC, and...
Updated: November 26, 2018
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