June 17, 2013, Baltimore, MD – As the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning enters its third week, a federal district court in Baltimore heard arguments today on whether to grant members of the press...
A federal class action lawsuit on behalf of the Vulcan Society and individual firefighters and firefighter applicants charging the New York City Fire Department with racially discriminatory hiring...
The events of Charlottesville on August 12, 2017, shocked many in the nation. We had not seen the brutality, racism, and anti-Semitism broadcast into our homes in such a graphic fashion. Nazis, Ku...
Landowners File Constitutional Challenge to Bayou Bridge's Claim to Eminent Domain in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin Last week, we filed a major legal challenge against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP...
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post on May 24, 2010. US law officially proclaims Memorial Day "as a day of prayer for permanent peace." However, the US is much closer to...
February 21, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) open an immediate criminal investigation into claims of...
November 13, 2007, Frankfurt, New York, Paris – Today an appeal was filed before the Frankfurt High Regional Court seeking review of the German Federal Prosecutor’s April 2007 decision not to proceed...
December 23, 2008, New York and Washington, DC — The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must turn over information regarding 49 cables it has admitted it has in its possession related to the...
It’s been thirteen years since interrogators and military police at Abu Ghraib prison tortured detainees, and twelve since the abuse, captured on film, was disclosed to the world. It’s been even...
