Still “Much Work to Be Done” August 7, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices submitted two reform policies – on racial...
April 7, 2017Trump signed yet another executive order last week, this one undermining the rights of workers. The March 27, 2017, order revoked three previous orders issued by President Obama related to federal...
Rahim v FBI is a federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation filed in the District Court for the Eastern District...
Updated: March 6, 2019
Please join CCR's senior staff attorney, Katherine Gallagher , at San Diego State University for her keynote speech on the U.S. detention and interrogation program in response to 9/11. Katherine will...
Updated: March 1, 2018
The ten years since the attacks of 9/11 and range of government responses have featured two important and competing trends in the arena of civil rights damages litigation. On the one hand, federal...
Updated: November 29, 2011
Plaintiffs ask federal court to block rushed federal permit for ammonia plant on former plantation land in Modeste, Louisiana July 2, 2026, Washington D.C. – Residents of Louisiana's River Parishes...
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
T he new filing in federal court comes after ICE said they would keep Mr. Khalil detained based on false allegations following a court ruling that detention on the Secretary of State’s say-so is...
November 14, 2018...The company was in the process of trying to use the controversial doctrine of eminent domain to “expropriate” the land, which allows the government to seize land for the public good. But according...
March 7, 2022This Women’s History Month, we are disrupting oppressive white and cisgender narratives about womanhood
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