A second animal rights activist was sentenced Wednesday in a case dating back to 2014, in which two men were accused of releasing some 2,000 minks from a fur farm in Morris, Illinois. ... ... The...
A California animal rights activist who freed 2,000 minks from an Illinois fur farm in 2013 was sentenced on Wednesday to house arrest and ordered to pay $200,000 to the farm's owners, prosecutors...
On April 28, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent copies of their report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the U.S. , to one hundred lawmakers in five states who were...
May 2, 2016, San Diego – This morning in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Joseph Buddenberg was sentenced to two years in federal prison for Conspiracy to Violate the...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak about her litigation to fight the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) alongside eco, animal liberation, and social justice activists from the...
Join the ACLU of Northern California, American Constitution Society, CCR, and the National Lawyers Guild to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We will host a...
AETA Denies Freedom of Speech and Due Process Say Attorneys May 9, 2016, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise...
Animal-rights activists asked the Seventh Circuit to deem the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act unconstitutional for designating nonviolent property damage "terrorism," because two men charged under...
May 11, 2016, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights is sad to release the following statement on the occasion of the passing of the Center’s president emeritus Michael Ratner: From Attica...
It is with a very heavy heart that we write to tell you of a great loss to our family. Today, we lost one of the great social justice warriors of our time, Michael Ratner. In July 2015, Michael fell...
