December 2, 2018...Through eminent domain, the government would be allowed to use private property for public use, a process the landowners question as being constitutionally permissible given the fact that the...
November 8, 2019...Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Baher Azmy argued the class members relied on the government’s representation they would have access to the asylum process if they waited in Mexico...
February 19, 2020... “CBP’s own statistics show that the Government has far more capacity to process asylum seekers than it is currently using,” attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for...
September 10, 2015George Ruiz, a seventy-two-year-old inmate in California, has spent the last thirty-one years in solitary confinement, most of it in Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been held in a windowless cell,...
May 16, 2019...To achieve reunification, Silane embarked on a legal battle involving the ACLU, the DOJ, the Center for Constitutional Rights and eventually applied for injunctive relief in the SDNY to facilitate...
July 31, 2019...The NYPD anti-gang initiative also came as a class-action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenged the department’s use of stop-and-frisk. In 2013, a federal judge...
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Updated: September 22, 2026
February 2015" Judge Chase Leonhard ruled on Friday to not dismiss Steven Salaita’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the University during a hearing at the Champaign County Courthouse. ..." Read the...
A Brief history of the Alien Tort Statute Adopted as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has been part of U.S. law for more than 200 years, and allows non-U.S. citizens to...
Updated: February 6, 2017
July 17,2015, New York – Today, on the one-year anniversary of the police killing of Eric Garner, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: One year after Eric Garner...
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