Consolidated cases against private military contractor Blackwater, later known as Xe Services, and its founder Erik Prince, for the Nisoor Square shooting and the killing of civilians at Watahba...
Updated: August 11, 2017
On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the lead plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights case White Hat v. Landry , Anne White Hat—a Sicangu, Lakota Water Protector based in...
Updated: September 19, 2022
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Davis Wright Tremaine on Friday, March 9, 2018, to hear oral arguments on defendants’ and plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment in...
Updated: March 8, 2018
January 6, 2020Never stop fighting Guantánamo [caption align="right"] [/caption] This coming Saturday will mark the 18th anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay prison, and the Center for Constitutional Rights will be co...
October 4, 2010, New York and Washington – The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it is asking the Solicitor General for the government’s views on claims brought by hundreds of detainees...
Action brought in Switzerland under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 12, 2019
January 10, 2013, New York –In response to Governor Cuomo’s proposal in his State of the State address to reform the state’s marijuana laws, Center for Constitutional Rights...
May 2012Ten inmates held in isolation at California's Pelican Bay State Prison for more than a decade sued the state Thursday, saying their conditions - which deprived them of virtually all human contact and...
WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ - The U.S. Supreme Court sent a terrible message with its refusal today to hear the case of 250 civilians allegedly tortured and seriously harmed by corporate...
Introduction The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and despite the protections of our Constitution, many endure cruel and unusual punishment. In addition to...
Updated: June 18, 2010
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