May 2012Sikh and Muslim transit workers in New York City are celebrating the settlement of a federal lawsuit that will allow them to wear turbans on the job, in public and without affixing Metropolitan...
March 2012Jumaane D. Williams, NYC Council Member of the 45th Council District, discusses the need for reform in the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice.
The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, undertook an official visit to the...
Updated: February 19, 2010
November 2014"New York City police unions protesting the city's agreement to settle lawsuits on stop-and-frisk practices waited too long before trying to insert themselves into the high-profile litigation,...
February 2010Though the NYC police department insists its "stop-and-frisk" strategy has reduced crime, data indicates otherwise.
Anderson v. Hale and World Church of the Creator is a civil rights case in which Reverend Stephen Anderson sued the World Church of the Creator, charging them with advocating a “Racial Holy War” that...
Updated: October 9, 2007
CCR Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon, attorney for Djamel Ameziane, will speak on a panel organized alongside Amnesty International after a screening of the new film " ISN 310: Djamel Ameziane's...
Updated: May 30, 2013
September 2012A report from the Center for Constitutional Rights details the human impact of stop-and-frisk incidents, which a spokesperson for the CCR says are technically on pace to reach over 600,000 for the...
December 11, 2009. New York, NY - Today, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon granted a preliminary injunction against the United States for unconstitutionally withholding funds from ACORN. In its...
May 2012A federal judge on Wednesday granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics, saying she was disturbed by the city’s “...
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