Plaintiffs sue parish council for pattern of racist land use practices that centralize petrochemical plants in Black neighborhoods, declare that new suit is only just the beginning March 21, 2023,...
January 10, 2017, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
From Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigration Dragnet (2015) explores and exposes the depth of local...
Updated: May 24, 2019
November 2, 2015A freshly unsealed war court document shows an American-educated former al-Qaida courier turned government witness has agreed to postpone his Guantánamo sentencing hearing by three years. Majid Khan...
July 22, 2009, New York, NY – Today, United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit charging the Fire Department of New York (FDNY...
The Legal Worker will provide administrative, programmatic, and paralegal assistance as part of case/project teams in the Legal Department. Legal Workers are supervised day-to-day by staff attorneys...
Updated: November 22, 2019
The Legal Worker will provide administrative, programmatic, and paralegal assistance as part of case/project teams in the Legal Department. Legal Workers are supervised day-to-day by staff attorneys...
Updated: January 8, 2021
March 10, 2011 New York – In response to yesterday’s reports of brutal force being used against peaceful protesters in Yemen, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
January 14, 2022As a lawyer who has represented Guantánamo detaine es since the inception of the prison 20 years ago, I sometimes get asked, “What about these cases could you possibly still be litigating in 2022?”...
December 10, 2010, New York – Yesterday, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled in favor of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic of...
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