October 4, 2010, New York and Washington – The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it is asking the Solicitor General for the government’s views on claims brought by hundreds of detainees...
September 13 New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that six new plaintiffs have joined a federal, class action lawsuit, Turkmen v. Ashcroft, challenging their...
July 30, 2010, New York - A group of 72 Iraqi citizens who allege they were tortured while imprisoned at detention facilities across Iraq can continue with their lawsuit against military contractor L...
July 21, 2010, New York and Charlottesville, VA – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) today filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Virginia...
June 13, 2010, New York, NY – Yesterday, the United States’ first prosecution under the little known Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was derailed when Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the...
CCR, Former Corrections Officials, Large Coalition Flood BOP with Public Comments Critical of Experimental Prison Units That Target Muslims, Activists With No Due Process Communication Management...
May 28, 2010, Washington, D.C. – Today, three amicus curiae or friend-of-the-court briefs were filed in the Supreme Court, in support of CCR’s petition for certiorari in its case against...
April 27, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and its co-counsel asked the Supreme Court to take up the case against CACI and L-3 Services (formerly Titan), two...
April 23, 2010, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, and the Council on American Islamic Relations-NY released an open letter today expressing their...
April 21, 2010, New York – In response to a government motion today asking for jurors in the case of Fahad Hashmi to be anonymous and kept under extra security, the Center for Constitutional...