June 3, 2022... Center for Constitutional Rights who represent the Descendants Project sent a letter to the Louisiana attorney general and the Louisiana Division of Archaeology, requesting that they force the...
Harris v. McRae is a class action lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenging federal restrictions on Medicaid funds for medically necessary abortions. In the wake of...
Updated: October 22, 2007
San Diego, January 7, 2021 —Immigrant rights advocates moved for a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration’s latest attempt to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the...
June 12, 2015So what happens when the FBI is given full discretion to use one of the many ever-expanding government watchlists to coerce law-abiding people into spying in their communities? They use it, of course...
September 6, 2013, New York – Today, in Floyd v. City of New York , a federal class action lawsuit that successfully challenged the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk...
The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, undertook an official visit to the...
Updated: February 19, 2010
Dombrowski v. Eastland is a government misconduct case in which Dr. James Dombrowski filed suit against the chairperson of the Internal Security Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Salas v. United States is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) brought charges against the United States for the 1989 illegal invasion of Panama and subsequent human rights...
Updated: October 9, 2007
September 15, 2021I remember being excited for Hispanic Heritage Month, or HHM, in college. It was a time to celebrate what I felt was my culture in a predominately white American space. I was even in the HSA (...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, along with Bronx Defenders, the Legal Aid Society, NAACP-LDF, NYCLU, and the law firm of Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, filed an amicus brief in support of the...
Updated: March 9, 2021
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