August 23, 2016Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
Clavir v. Levi is a case brought against the FBI for illegal surveillance activities, and was instrumental in revealing the extent and the danger of FBI surveillance methods, as well as setting a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Mohammed Kamin’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) proceedings were part of an administrative process created to review the cases of those Guantánamo detainees who are neither already cleared for release...
Updated: March 2, 2017
- Turkmen v. Ashcroft was first filed on April 17, 2002, on behalf of three non-citizens and a putative class of Arab, South Asian and Muslim men arrested on immigration charges and detained in...
Updated: November 22, 2016
Soto v. Romero-Barcelo was a case which brought suit to uncover FBI involvement in the killing of young pro-independence activists at Cerro Maravilla, Puerto Rico. The case led to substantial awards...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Dombrowski v. Eastland is a government misconduct case in which Dr. James Dombrowski filed suit against the chairperson of the Internal Security Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Kunstler v. City of New York was a multi-plaintiff federal lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the New York Police Department (NYPD) on behalf of protesters who were...
Updated: August 26, 2011
Bruno v. McGuire is a lawsuit the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed together with lawyers from MFY Legal Services, Inc., the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Division, and Brooklyn Legal Services...
Updated: December 17, 2007
January 21, 2011, New York – Upon the anniversary of President Obama’s broken promise to close Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) reported that a man detained...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring four Bertha Justice Fellows, for 9/2020-9/2022. The Bertha Justice Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two-year program for emerging...
Updated: February 13, 2020
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