For the first time on Tuesday, October 7, 2008, a federal court will consider the potential parole of 17 innocent Uighur men who were falsely detained at Guantánamo Bay for over six long years. The...
Updated: October 3, 2008
April 16, 2009, New York – In response to President Obama’s decision to guarantee immunity to CIA officials who carried out the drowning torture known as waterboarding, which his attorney...
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...
December 22, 2017The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office in Northern Virginia is holding people in jail past their release date at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] using a technique that raises...
On October 31, 2013, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted the City's request for a stay on the stop-and-frisk remedies mandated by the Federal district...
Updated: November 8, 2013
January 23, 2012, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) wrote to the U.S. State Department expressing concerns that David Murillo and Silvia Mencías, plaintiffs in...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will be participating in a series of panels hosted by Rutgers School of Law - Newark entitled "The Art of Protest #BlackLivesMatter: Community Lawyering and...
Updated: March 18, 2016
Stop-and-frisk abuses and other abusive NYPD practices over the past few decades resulted in a federal court ordering that changes be developed with community input, as the result of several class...
Updated: November 21, 2016
May 27, 2019We're suing to block Louisian's anti-protest law [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, landowners, community members, environmental justice advocates, and a journalist filed a lawsuit...
June 17, 2024This continues the 16-year legal struggle by three Iraqis against a multi-billion dollar U.S. government contractor
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