May 26, 2010, New York – Today, United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis appointed former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau the special master to oversee and expedite the...
November 30, 2017The seven-member Ohio Supreme Court unanimously rejected a free speech and equal protection challenge to the state’s law making it a felony assault for a person who knows he is HIV-positive to engage...
November 8, 2010 , WASHINGTON – The Obama administration today argued before a federal court that it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally...
Universal Jurisdiction: It's Back! 9:00am – 10:30am Ballroom I Co-sponsored by the Dispute Resolution Interest Group Although there is no consensus on the scope and operation of universal...
Updated: April 10, 2008
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
Updated: September 24, 2026
Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters July 19, 2018, New York — Today, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin recording all police-citizen...
Tamayo Espinoza v. Witte is a federal lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on behalf of seven medically vulnerable people currently held in Adams County Detention...
Updated: September 29, 2020
January 10, 2013, New York – In response to today’s announcement that Zero Dark Thirty has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Center for Constitutional Rights...
CCR's Communications Associate and former client Lauren Gazzola will give the keynote at New York City's first United for Animals Forum. The NYC United for Animals coalition is a platform for new and...
Updated: September 28, 2016
Linda Burnham has been an activist, writer, and strategist, focused on women’s rights and racial justice, since the 1960s. She is co-editor and contributor to the 2022 book Power Concedes Nothing:...
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