Profile of a mentally ill immigrant's unjustly prolonged detention. The CCR and other civil liberties advocates argue that certain protections, including the appointment of counsel to anyone with a...
Six Chinese Muslims were flown from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Pacific island nation of Palau, as part of the Obama administration's effort to close the prison. Three of...
A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because...
The CCR filed a lawsuit on behalf of the community group Acorn, charging that the Congressional Resolution to bar federal funding for the group is unconstitutional because it constitutes a...
The federal government must continue to provide grant money to the national community organizing group ACORN, a federal court ruled Friday, saying that the House violated the Constitution when it...
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that New York City intentionally discriminated against black applicants to the Fire Department by continuing to use an exam that it had been told put them at a...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in the Fire Department by giving hundreds of black and Latino applicants jobs, along with years of...
In a dispute that reflects the religious and political divides in this contested city, representatives of long-established Palestinian families petitioned the United Nations on Wednesday for help in...
Ralph D. Fertig, a 79-year-old civil rights lawyer, says he would like to help a militant Kurdish group in Turkey find peaceful ways to achieve its goals. But he fears prosecution under a law banning...
The Office of Professional Responsibility makes no suggestions for holding accountable the former Bush administration lawyers who issued legal memos authorizing waterboarding, John C. Yoo and Jay S...
