WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that several high-ranking Bush administration officials may not be sued for policies adopted after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The officials include...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against six foreigners who hoped to sue officials from President George W. Bush's administration over alleged abuse in a Brooklyn jail after the 9/11 attacks. The...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ended a long legal struggle to sue top officials such as former FBI director Robert Mueller and former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft for damages for alleged...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ziglar v. Abbasi , an important case curbing lawsuits against former government officials for purported abuse of federal detainees. Some will view this decision...
To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
The Vatican isn't doing enough to protect children - that's the sentiment from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and the Center for Constitutional Rights. The two advocate groups wrote...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A civil lawsuit filed by inmates at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is back in front of a federal judge. Friday's hearing at U.S. District Court in Alexandria comes...
In collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Stanford University Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab has released a report titled Mental Health Consequences Following...
...Journal attorney Pamela Spees argues in court documents that the two "are not one and the same." She describes Earth First as a "broad-based social movement" with no formal membership or...
...Their complaint, filed on the 16th anniversary of the opening of the detention center on the base in southeast Cuba, is unusual legal step since this type of action, known as habeas corpus...
