December 11, 2015, New York – Today, in a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a historic ruling by a three-judge...
November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
Center for Constitutional Rights issues statement in support November 23, 2015, New York – Today, in response to a detailed submission to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court by a...
November 12, 2015, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Loevy & Loevy announced the settlement of Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of...
November 3, 2015, New York – Today, in response to the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York launching a website on the Joint Remedial Process that...
Palestine Legal Responded to Nearly 300 Incidents in 2014-2015; 85 Percent Targeted Students and Scholars on More Than 65 College Campuses September 30, 2015 - A new report, “ The Palestine Exception...
August 26, 2015, Chicago – Professor Steven Salaita filed a motion late last night in his lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) charging UIUC officials with...
August 25, 2015, New York – Yesterday evening, the court overseeing reforms to NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practicesin the landmark case Floyd v. City of New York approved two proposed policy reforms – on...
Still “Much Work to Be Done” August 7, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices submitted two reform policies – on racial...
University’s Attempt to Dismiss Salaita Suit Over “Uncivil” Tweets Rejected by Court August 6, 2015, Chicago – Today, a federal judge rejected efforts to throw out a lawsuit against the University of...