Marks First Time in U.S. History a Former Head of State Will Sit Before Accusers in a Civil Human Rights Trial February 20, 2018, Miami, FL – A federal judge has ruled that the former president of...
Martha Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America is a civil rights case which challenged the monopolies that phone companies and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) maintain in the prison...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Taylor v. Hayes is a civil case that went up to the Supreme Court in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) contested Kentucky attorney Dan Taylor’s four-and-a half-year jail sentence for...
Updated: October 9, 2007
On December 10, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Innocence Project submitted an amicus brief in a Second Circuit lawsuit, Darboe v. Barr, challenging the removal order of Ousman...
Updated: December 11, 2020
Wallace v. Kern is a class action lawsuit filed by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of seven indigent inmates awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention. These men had filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on May 21, 2004, urging the Court to grant a writ of certiorari and to review the decision of the Tenth Circuit...
Updated: October 9, 2007
“Puerto Rican Subversives List” refers to the work CCR did with the Instituto Puertorriqueño de Derechos Civilies, an organization founded by José Antonio “Abi” Lugo, a former CCR attorney, and other...
Updated: October 9, 2007
United States v. Union Nacional de Trabajadores is a lawsuit that grew out of National Labor Relations Board v. Union Nacional de Trabajadores . The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Bick v. Mitchell is a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS...
Updated: October 9, 2007
February 9, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to the release of a report on detainees released from Guantánamo by...
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