Suit calls Commissioner Tisch’s decision to overturn her own deputy commissioner’s guilty verdict an abuse of discretion May 14, 2026, New York – Today, the family of Allan Feliz asked the New York...
Briggs v. Goodwin is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) led a team of lawyers in successfully defending leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, known as the “...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Taylor v. Hayes is a civil case that went up to the Supreme Court in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) contested Kentucky attorney Dan Taylor’s four-and-a half-year jail sentence for...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Bari v. Held is a lawsuit that charged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), former FBI agent-in-charge Richard Held, and the Oakland Police Department with violating Judi Bari and Darryl...
Updated: January 13, 2010
November 5, 2021...Last week, as Common Dreams reported , Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz's punitive designation targeted six groups—Addameer, AlHaq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for...
November 28, 2017The FBI is not only surveilling Black Lives Matter groups but also feared that "black supremacist extremists" would target the 2016 presidential conventions, according to agency documents. Records...
11 a.m.- 12:40 p.m. – Taxi to the Darkside, the Oscar-nominated (2008) documentary, an "in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay,...
Updated: February 14, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
Updated: March 24, 2009
November 2014The Ferguson grand jury operated in an unorthodox way in the Darren Wilson case: The prosecutor, Robert McCullough, presented all the evidence and then took a hands-off approach designed to shift...
February 15, 2017...“We're sponsoring and participating in Friday's action because lawyers, like everyone else, need to be counted upon to stand up to any and all illegal actions of this and future presidencies,”...
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