A suit on behalf of the Oneida Nation of New York against the U.S. Department of the Interior, charging that the government violated the Oneidas’ national sovereignty. The suit alleged that the...
Updated: February 10, 2012
The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to take on the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Mohamud v. United States is one of the first...
Updated: August 16, 2017
September 9, 2026, New York – As the country prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: In the 25 years since...
Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, former death-squad leader and known human rights abuser, has spent the past 14 years - in Haiti and in the U.S. - trying to evade justice, whether it be for rape...
Updated: July 15, 2009
Governor Asked to End Project in St. James D ecember 18, 2019, St. James, Louisiana — RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots community group, recently learned that graves of enslaved people have...
A federal class action lawsuit originally filed in 1995 by an organization of deaf and hard of hearing New Yorkers. The Americans with Disabilities Act case asked the court to block a plan by the...
Updated: August 15, 2011
The Past and Future of reproductive Rights in New York 7pm Recent restrictions on abortion rights and access to contraception at the federal and state levels, including the Supreme Court’s recent...
Updated: January 18, 2008
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh is a case filed against the U.S. Attorney General and the head of the INS that alleged they violated domestic and international laws when they denied asylum to...
Updated: October 9, 2007
New York and Washington, DC—April 13, 2009 - The Obama administration should take immediate steps to declassify and release documents that would allow the American public to understand the truth...
September 13, 2016The cancellation of a Black Lives Matter benefit concert Sunday because the Movement for Black Lives platform “accuses Israel of genocide and endorses a range of boycott and sanction actions” is the...
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