The filing comes after the government failed to respond to a FOIA request demanding urgent transparency over President Trump’s illegal strikes December 9, 2025, New York – The American Civil...
December 20, 2016As I sat at my desk here in New York and learned that the original sacred fire had been extinguished at Oceti Sakowin, and a new one built , I thought about the time I spent there, at Standing Rock...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild-New York City Chapter (NLG-NYC) sent New York Assembly Members a letter urging them to oppose pending legislation that would...
Updated: January 31, 2014
Ashley Diamond is a Black trans woman and prisoners’ rights activist from Rome, Georgia, whose landmark lawsuit challenging the cruel and unusual treatment of incarcerated trans people by the Georgia...
Updated: March 7, 2023
October 29, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ The military commission sentencing hearing of a man tortured and imprisoned by the U.S. for eighteen years concluded today, paving the way for his transfer...
August 2013As the Police Department performed a mounting number of stops on New York streets, voices of opposition, slow and scattershot, struggled to be heard. Complaints, mostly from minority areas, never...
Jane Doe v. Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and Anwar Haddam is a lawsuit brought in December 1996 by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic (...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Verdict ordering CACI to pay three Iraqis $42 million is casualty of Supreme Court’s June ruling gutting Alien Tort Statute August 28, 2026, Richmond, VA – Having previously upheld a historic $42...
January 14, 2016An American pastor is publicly appealing for donations after experiencing “major financial hardship” as the result of a lawsuit in which he is accused of inciting violence and discrimination against...
August 3, 2023...The organizations draw attention to the dozens of environmental protesters arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in a letter to the department director, Alejandro Mayorkas. The charges have...
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