August 6, 2014, New York – Today, the City of New York and plaintiffs jointly filed a motion with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to withdraw the City’s appeal of Floyd v. City of New...
August 6, 2014 —In response to the grave risks faced by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) and other human rights organizations during Israel’s ground invasion and bombardment...
August 5, 2014, New York – Today, rights groups filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to comply...
July 30, 2014, New York – Today, federal District Judge Analisa Torres rejected the attempts of several police unions to intervene in Floyd v. City of New York , the landmark stop-and-frisk...
July 16, 2014 – In response to Israel’s ongoing bombardement of Gaza, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli...
June 30, 2014, Richmond, VA – Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that victims of torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib prison could pursue legal claims for their abuse against private...
May 21, 2014, New York, Paris, Gaza, Jerusalem, Ramallah – On the occasion of the appeal in the civil suit filed by the family of Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel for the death of the...
May 12, 2014, New York – In response to the NYPD’s release today of its complete stop-and-frisk data for 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement:...
May 1, 2014, New York – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court of appeals to allow a case to go forward against high-level Bush administration...
April 7, 2014, Seattle – Today, the Washington State Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five members of the Olympia Food Co-op against current and former members of...