October 18, 2011 – Los Angeles, New York, Paris – Late last night, in a lawsuit brought against the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) by California-based agricultural labor...
October 29, 2013, New York – Today, attorneys in the landmark case Floyd v. City of New York urged the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reject the City’s effort to delay the remedies...
March 27, 2020, New York – Following the passage of H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:...
April 7, 2014, Seattle – Today, the Washington State Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five members of the Olympia Food Co-op against current and former members of...
15,000 Pages of Documents Previously Obtained by CCR Show U.S. Blocking Efforts at Accountability May 30, 2017, San Francisco – the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Center for...
The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of Edmund Zagorski, a man imprisoned on death row in Tennessee. CCR argued that the death...
Updated: January 23, 2017
Rights Groups Move to Stop Private Corporations from Intervening in Freedom of Information Lawsuit November 29, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Detention Watch...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will speak on a 3:30 p.m. panel on May 2nd titled, "Legacies of the Incarceration in Surveillance & Policing of U.S. Communities of Color." The panel will...
Updated: April 17, 2014
April 23, 2014, Washington D.C. – For the first time, hundreds of documents detailing the Bureau of Prisons’ process for designating prisoners to controversial Communications Management...
December 29, 2016Whether it’s taking on the federal government, powerful corporations, or the NYPD, CCR never backs down from a fight when marginalized communities and individuals have suffered injustice. And we don’...
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