November 2013By Erwin Chemerinsky November 5, 2013 Judges are human and sometimes getting caught up in the emotions of high profile cases causes them to make serious errors. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court...
May 27, 2019We're suing to block Louisian's anti-protest law [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, landowners, community members, environmental justice advocates, and a journalist filed a lawsuit...
An outgrowth of the Body Politic intensive laboratory that piloted at Gibney Dance summer 2018, this interactive program features live dance and audience discussion that poses the questions: How can...
Updated: December 3, 2018
December 17, 2012, New York – Today, attorneys announced the settlement of a home raids case against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Seven men and women and one child brought the...
May 2, 2016The Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today announced the filing of a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of a Muslim-American woman who had her...
July 29, 2016 – New York – Today, three American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become informants...
Please join CCR for oral arguments in Hassan v. the City of New York on Tuesday, January 13th at 10:00 am in Philadelphia, PA. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over whether...
Updated: December 19, 2014
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak alongside a distinguished panel of experts about race, social control, and punishment in the U.S. The panel will be part of a daylong symposium...
Updated: February 7, 2017
September 23, 2016Image: drawing by Marco Perez Today, 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...
August 30, 2017The racist ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, recently pardoned by his friend Donald Trump, is a despicable human being. He has proudly called his outdoor “tent city” jails “concentration camps”, and his police...
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