April 20, 2011, New York – In an important test of open government, a federal court hearing is scheduled tomorrow in the Southern District of New York at which the Obama administration will...
April 15, 2011, New York and Miami – Today, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security resumed deportations of Haitian nationals...
April 6, 2011, New York and Miami – Yesterday, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security announced its intent to continue...
March 30, 2011, New York – Today, prisoners in two experimental federal prison units called “Communications Management Units” (CMUs) won the right to have their day in court and...
March 21, 2011, New York – Last Friday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in “a pattern or...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
March 8, 2011, New York – In response to the impending hearings being held by United States Representative Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on “The Extent of...
February 17, 2011, New York, Geneva – Over one year after a group of 60 individuals petitioned United Nations officials to stop the desecration and destruction of an ancient Muslim cemetery in...
Feb 16, 2011 – Today, advocates made available excepts of 15,000 pages of documents released following litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Center for Constitutional...
February 16, 2011 – Today, attorneys filed a federal civil rights suit in New Orleans on behalf of nine anonymous plaintiffs convicted under Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature law and...