The purpose of the FOIA request and lawsuit is to obtain information for the public about federal agencies' policies of imposing fines and monetary penalties on individuals, specifically immigrants...
Updated: January 21, 2026
A federal class action lawsuit against the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop and frisks.
Updated: September 28, 2026
DATE: 2009-07-24 00:23:00 SOURCE: Embassy Tegucigalpa CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL HEADER INFORMATON VZCZCXYZ0000 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHTG #0645/01 2050023 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 240023Z JUL 09 FM AMEMBASSY...
Updated: December 17, 2010
April 11, 2016President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, has been characterized as a moderate who, if confirmed, would nudge his divided colleagues slightly to the left because...
September 1, 2015California agreed to a "landmark" settlement of a federal class action filed on behalf of hundreds of prisoners held in solitary confinement for more than a decade at the state's prison in Pelican...
November 13, 2015Steven Salaita hit the jackpot Wednesday, when the University of Illinois agreed to pay him $600,000 and his lawyers an additional $275,000 to go away. That's roughly seven times what his annual...
May 18, 2015, New York and Chicago – Today Palestine Solidarity Legal Support (Palestine Legal), in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), released findings on the rising trend...
October 28, 2023...Racial profiling, police violence, mass incarceration and drone killings are among the wide array of abuses UN experts have raised at a review of US civil and political rights policies in Geneva...
Four months after 9/11, on January 11, 2002, the U.S. military flew 20 prisoners from Afghanistan to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More would soon follow, as would allegations...
Updated: January 11, 2010
March 30, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging violations of fundamental constitutional rights, including the right to due process, at...
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