December 26, 2019...We participated in the hearing on behalf of several U.S. torture victims who, for nearly 15 years, have been seeking justice and accountability for serious harms they suffered on the territories...
December 30, 2020Residents in St. James Parish are asking council officials to revoke a land use permit for a planned 14-plant chemical complex, asserting that newly discovered information proves that Formosa’s...
December 27, 2019RISE St. James in Lousiana discovered the presence of a burial ground for slaves after reviewing emails and records from Formosa Plastics, whom they allege did not tell the local community about it...
On January 8, 2020, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Pamela Spees , senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, will represent the landowners in Bayou Bridge Pipeline...
Updated: January 7, 2020
Pipeline is Environmentally Destructive, Not in the Public Good January 8, 2020, Lake Charles, LA – Today, attorneys representing Louisiana landowners whose property was taken by an oil pipeline...
January 9, 2020...Attorney Pam Spees is with the Center for Constitutional Rights and represents landowners. She says if not stopped by the courts companies can do whatever they wan t, as far as taking property in...
January 9, 2020... The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles could take weeks or months to decide the case involving the 162-mile-long (260-kilometer) Bayou Bridge Pipeline, attorney Pamela Spees of the...
They point to alarming new information about cancer risks, company’s failure to comply with promise to protect children and residents, and alert parish about burial grounds of enslaved people January...
Join the CUNY School of Law's Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice for the first in a series of human rights seminars led by their 2020 Scholar-in-Residence, longtime Center for...
Updated: February 4, 2020
February 6, 2020... Pamela Spees, the senior staff attorney of Center for Constitutional Rights who petitioned the Parish Council about the graves earlier this month, said her group is working with an independent...
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