CBP Denial of Access to Asylum Process Puts Migrants at Risk of Violence and Death, Lawsuit Says October 15, 2018, Washington, D.C. – In a new court filing, asylum seekers and an immigrant rights...
October 12, 2018 – This week, a Honduran immigrant, Mr. C., who was held in a New York detention center for five months, separated from and barred from communicating with his two-year-old son, was...
Civil Rights Group Argues Family Separation Meets Legal Standard for Torture October 4, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed in a Manhattan court for the immediate...
September 24, 2018, New York – In response to the Trump administration’s proposal to designate hundreds of thousands of immigrants as potential “public charges,” the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Countersuing Company for Trespass, Illegal Construction, Landowners Cite Climate Change, Grave Threats to Public Health September 12, 2018, St. Martinville, LA – Today, landowners whose property...
August 24, 2018, San Diego – A federal judge ruled this week that a lawsuit challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) practice of turning away asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border...
August 23, 2018, North Dakota – Yesterday, a federal court dismissed the environmental movement Earth First! from a lawsuit by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the corporation behind the Dakota Access...
August 2, 2018, Washington, DC – On Tuesday, nine NGOs and experts filed an amicus brief before the US Supreme Court in support of the Indian fishing communities and farmers who are challenging the...
July 25, 2018, New York, NY – In response to a North Dakota District Court’s dismissal of a RICO suit against environmental NGO BankTrack by Energy Transfer Partners, the Center for Constitutional...
As ICE Raids Escalate, New Platform Highlights ICE Tactics to Help Equip Communities to Exercise Their Constitutional Rights July 23, 2018, New York – The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) today in...