August 10, 2011, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law...
New York, July 28th – On Monday, August 1, the City of New York will be asked at a trial in federal court in Brooklyn how it intends to remedy its 40-year history of racial discrimination...
July 26, 2011, New York – Yesterday, CCR joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups to file a brief of amicus curiae in the case, United States v...
July 11, 2011, New York – In a victory today for plaintiffs the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice...
July 7, 2011, New York – In response to reports that the Obama administration had flown a Somali man accused of ties to terrorism to New York to face prosecution after holding and interrogating...
June 29, 2011, New Orleans – Late last night, legislation eliminating the mandatory sex offender registration requirement for individuals convicted of Louisiana’s Solicitation of a Crime...
June 22, 2011, Lansing, MI - Citizens from across Michigan today announced they are taking Michigan’s controversial emergency manager law to court, filing a lawsuit that charges Gov. Rick...
June 16, 2011, Washington D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), You.Me.We.,...
June 8, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, advocates and attorneys critical of the controversial immigration program Secure Communities (S-Comm) decried the agency’s placing of...
June 2, 2011, New York, Miami and New Orleans – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a strongly-worded order yesterday directing the United States to refrain from...