December 8, 2008, New York – This week, the Coalition to Abolish the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act launched a campaign to repeal the Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act (AETA), a law that broadens the...
August 6, 2009, Washington, DC – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Font & Glazer, Citizen Soldier, and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark filed an appeal with the...
What is a Communications Management Unit (CMU)? In 2006 and 2008, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP or “Bureau”) secretly created the Communications Management Units (CMUs), prison units designed to...
Updated: April 13, 2017
September 2009The CCR represented Seeds of Peace and Three Rivers Climate Convergence charging that police used illegal searches, vehicle seizures, raids and detentions to discourage protests at the G20 Summit. A...
December 3, 2019, Phoenix, Arizona – Today, a coalition of human rights organizations released an in-depth report about the role of the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the...
Since 2011, there has been a marked proliferation of state laws targeting undercover investigations and whistleblowing in animal agriculture. These ag-gag laws vary, but all include one or more of...
Updated: December 3, 2019
Ask Court to Find Arizona Legislators in Violation of State’s Open Meeting Law December 4, 2019, Phoenix, AZ – Today, lawyers and advocates from Puente, Mijente, Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Drawing Center for a Human Rights Day breakfast and private tour of the exhibition The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists led by...
Updated: December 5, 2019
Darius Charney is a Senior Staff Attorney who works on CCR’s government misconduct and racial justice cases. He is lead counsel on Floyd v. City of New York , CCR's landmark federal civil rights...
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...
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