CCR Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Legal Worker Ian Head will lead an hour-long webinar training on how to file federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and the state and local...
Updated: November 17, 2015
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will join other advocates and activists on a panel at the US Human Rights Network (USHRN)'s biannual national human rights conference Advancing Human Rights...
Updated: November 17, 2015
December 21, 2015In 2015, we continued many long and hard-fought battles against powerful and well-resourced institutions – the U.S. government, the NYPD, the NY Fire Department, the FBI, and the California...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on January 6, 2016. CCR has led the legal battle to close Guantánamo for nearly 14 years, representing clients in two Supreme Court cases and organizing and...
Updated: December 29, 2015
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...
Please pack the court for oral arguments in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication Management Units.” The CMUs are experimental prison units that impose...
Updated: March 4, 2016
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 20, 2016Bobby James Moore was sentenced to death by the State of Texas in 1980, when he was 20 years old. He has spent three and a half decades on death row, and the last fifteen years in solitary...
January 18, 2016... "It would have been very difficult if not impossible to have litigated this case without the resources that the Weil firm brought to this case," Jules Lobel of the Center for Constitutional...
January 25, 2016Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) was a plaintiff in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s federal lawsuit challenging policies and practices at the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s)...
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