February 16, 2016It has been a little over a year since a federal court began monitoring the reforms ordered in our stop-and-frisk case, and in that time the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel* have been...
July 15, 2016Earlier this week, the New York Times broke the news that New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito would be working with the NYPD to revise the administrative regulations contained in the...
July 17, 2018, New York – Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and...
October 31, 2018— The Center for Constitutional Rights was recently made aware of the unjust indictment of its board member, civil rights and criminal defense attorney Leonardo Aldridge, on malicious...
July 1, 2015Steven Salaita, the professor suing the University of Illinois for revoking his job last summer, has found a new academic position in Beirut. Salaita will be chair of American Studies at the American...
Please join Baher Azmy , Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director, as he participates in a webinar hosted by the American Constitution Society. As American troops leave Afghanistan, the story...
Updated: August 26, 2021
In appeal of “Irvine 11” convictions, CCR, JVP submit Amicus Brief highlighting prospect of discriminatory prosecution against Muslim students who spoke out for Palestinian human rights...
Updated: October 10, 2013
April 2013"The process of dying is never easy or painless. Death by starvation is particularly grueling: the body cannibalizes fat and tissue, wasting to skin and bones, leading to dehydration,...
March 12, 2008, New York, NY – Today, more than 30 attorneys from the United States who represent Yemeni men held at Guantánamo issued a statement saying they do not believe the detainees would be...
WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of injured civilians and families of Iraqis killed in two unprovoked shootings in Baghdad by Blackwater “shooters” sued the company and founder Erik...
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