On Wednesday, February 10th, join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the New York Civil Liberties Union for a conversation about reimagining public safety by centering the communities most...
Updated: February 8, 2021
September 1, 2016Today marks one year since the settlement in CCR’s class-action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California , which ended indeterminate long-term solitary confinement in California state prisons. As a...
June 22, 2017The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders. “Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.” So...
February 9, 2012, New York, NY – In response to Tuesday’s reintroduction in the Ugandan parliament of a bill that would require the death penalty for consensual sex between persons of the...
This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Wells Dixon, who is currently in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba visiting one of his clients. January 11, 2012 Today marks ten...
Updated: September 8, 2021
November 2013Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
In letter to St. James Parish Council, groups say ordinance reflects discriminatory and deadly land use system that has roots in slavery, threaten legal action if ordinance is not withdrawn St. James...
Presented by CUNY Law School's Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality, this event will feature a discussion with several distinguished members of the legal profession and activists...
Updated: March 20, 2012
July 20, 2020Victory! Appeals court rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline company 'trampled' landowners' rights [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, an appeals court for the State of Louisiana ruled that the...
Lawyers Vow to Continue to Pursue Invalidation of Widespread Unconstitutional Use of Wanteds November 2, 2022, St. Louis, MO – Yesterday, the federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued an...
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