In Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case filed on behalf of Arab and Muslim non-citizens who were subjected to prolonged and abusive detention in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
December 7, 2014, New York – Today, in response to the transfer to Uruguay of six Guantánamo prisoners who have been cleared for release for years, the Center for Constitutional Rights (...
"How can anyone in the community have faith in the system now?" said Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement. "First Ferguson, now Staten Island...
"Steven Salaita is fighting back against the University’s action to dismiss his civil rights lawsuit against the Board of Trustees, University administrators and unnamed donors. Salaita and the...
The first oral arguments in a case against St. Louis County’s system of “wanteds” took place on February 28, and the constitutional challenge by ArchCity Defenders, co-counsel Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,...
... Saldivar said CBP already faces a lawsuit in California for allegedly turning away asylum seekers at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. The class action lawsuit was filed by the Center...
...According to the 37-page federal complaint filed in Baton Rouge by attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Loyola University College of Law, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and...
...In particular, it excludes people fleeing "an epidemic of violence" in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the lawsuit says. The groups are represented by lawyers from the American Civil...
...Two nonprofit respondents, Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights, successfully argued in the lower courts that while GEO certainly had an “interest” in withholding these...
...The American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center returned to Tigar’s courtroom last week and asked him to document the need for a...
