The case was filed on behalf of three Haitian women who were brutally tortured by FRAPH. Two of the three plaintiffs were gang-raped in front of their families. A third was attacked by two FRAPH...
Updated: December 15, 2009
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What is SB185? On May 8, 2025, Governor Brian Kemp signed SB185 , a new law that bans the use of state money or resources for gender dysphoria healthcare in Georgia prisons. This law prevents people...
Updated: March 11, 2026
January 6, 2017January 2017 in Washington is a month history won’t soon forget—and for us at CCR, it’s especially meaningful. We will be at the Supreme Court, arguing Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly known as Turkmen v...
March 14, 2013, Oakland – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal judge to reject California’s attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging...
August 12, 2013, New York – In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. In...
April 18, 2022The first case of its kind in the country, it seeks an end to the ban on parole for felony murder
July 1, 2024, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling today that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts taken as part of their “core constitutional duties...
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
April 5, 2013, New York – This afternoon, activist Daniel McGowan was released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where he was taken into custody yesterday from the halfway...
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