December 11, 2015, New York – Today, in a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a historic ruling by a three-judge...
December 11, 2015Arab and Muslim former detainees who say they faced harsh jail conditions due to their faith and ethnicity following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks can pursue a lawsuit against former top U.S. law...
December 11, 2015More than 13 years after innocent Muslims faced prison abuses, "it is time to move the case forward" against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and others, two Second Circuit judges said Friday as...
December 11, 2015A deeply divided federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday kept alive a lawsuit against former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for allegedly approving mistreatment of...
December 12, 2015Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants held and abused in Brooklyn federal lockup after the 9/11 terrorist attacks have the right to sue Bush Administration bigs for their detention, the U.S. Second...
Revolving Door: Former Head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Office, Now High-Level Official at Major Detention Contractor, Asks Court to Support Secrecy December 23, 2015, New York – In a Freedom of...
January 4, 2016Law360, Washington (January 4, 2016, 9:30 PM ET) -- A Second Circuit panel on Monday blocked a suit, accusing high-level Bush administration officials of contributing to the abuse of immigrants...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on February 3, 2016. We will begin our two-part First Wednesday series addressing the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S., and discussing two landmark cases that...
Updated: February 1, 2016
January 29, 2016The movement to put private prison contractors out of business won some amazing victories in 2015. In the last two months, responding to organized action by California’s Afrikan Black Coalition and...
At Saturday’s Republican debate, Donald Trump and Ohio Governor John Kasich offered competing visions for improving police relations in the wake of the police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere...
Updated: February 8, 2016
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