August 26, 2015The recent email controversy at the University of Illinois will likely be a subject of discussion at a federal court hearing Thursday in the ongoing Steven Salaita case. Salaita's lawyers filed a...
April 27, 2017Today, students at Fordham University filed a lawsuit against the school over its refusal to grant club status to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Represented by the Center for Constitutional...
April 26, 2017A new lawsuit accuses Fordham University administrators of unfairly blocking recognition for a pro-Palestinian student organization on campus. In announcing the lawsuit, students represented by the...
Laila Al-Arian, Virginia, is a journalist, writer and filmmaker based in Washington DC. For her investigative documentary "Made in Bangladesh," she received the Peabody award and Robert F Kennedy...
August 14, 2019...In April 2017, Ahmad Awad, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’17, Sofia Dadap, FCLC ’18, Sapphira Lurie, FCLC ’17, and Julie Norris, FCLC ’19, represented by cooperating counsel Alan Levine...
August 24, 2009, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the statement below in response to the rumored announcement of the appointment of a special prosecutor...
Extends Settlement to End Indefinite Solitary Confinement in California January 28, 2019, Eureka – Late Friday, a federal judge found that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...
September 2013... According to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of a number of prisoners, the CMUs are analogous to solitary confinement -- an "experiment in social isolation...
“It’s not constitutional… This is a historic act of discrimination that singles out in broad fashion one religion, treats them differently, and is motivated by this venomous dislike for Muslims…...
Updated: February 6, 2017
November 9, 2018...Baher Azmy, the legal director of CCR told me that the law “could not be more clear that people must be processed for asylum,” even if they cross not at a port of entry. The Refugee Convention...
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