Legal Glossary Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) , also known as Alien Tort Statute (ATS) – The Alien Tort Claims Act is a federal statute from 1789 that allows foreign victims of international...
Updated: February 19, 2010
Return to Case Page- Al Odah v. U.S. Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Justice In Support of Petitioners Brief Amicus Curiae of Retired Military Officers in Support...
Updated: October 22, 2010
Telephone Justice for People in Prison Since 1999, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting on the ground and in the courts to end the exploitative telephone contract between New...
Updated: January 14, 2015
CCR, working with our international partners, has filed several cases against former U.S. officials, including George W. Bush and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, for their role in the...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by...
Updated: July 21, 2016
On August 31, 2005, in New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating counsel confirmed that prisoners have begun a new hunger strike at Guantánamo because the Department of Defense...
On May 21, 2007, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the City of New York, charging it with discriminatory hiring practices against black and Latino potential firefighters. The lawsuit...
On May 3, 2007, Time Magazine announced that Canadian rendition victim and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Maher Arar has made this year's Time 100, a "list of 100 men and women...
With the Supreme Court due to decide whether it will take up once more the case of the Guantánamo detainees and their right to habeas corpus, Senator Arlen Specter on March 22, 2007 submitted an...
On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court announced that it would not be hearing the cases of the Guantánamo detainees for the time being. The Court denied the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co...
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