For decades, residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have experienced threats to their health and wellbeing from an outdated, failing public water system. For the past three years, this predominantly...
The lawsuit seeks to compel both the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release documents pertaining to “Operation Palladium,” an...
This case aims to end the state of Pennsylvania’s mandatory imposition of death-by-incarceration sentences, otherwise known as life without parole, for Derek Lee and others convicted of felony murder...
In July 2020, ICE announced it would be holding a "Citizens Academy" in Chicago, Illinois where civilian invitees would be trained in various enforcement techniques used by the law enforcement agency...
A federal class action lawsuit against the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop and frisks.
In the summer of 2012, the Buffalo Police Department created a "Strike Force" Unit to aggressively patrol and conduct vehicle checkpoints in "high crime" areas of the city. While purportedly set up...
UNRWA USA National Committee, Inc. (UNRWA USA) is a U.S. nonprofit that supports the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) . Following the attacks of...
Palestinian human rights organizations, together with Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S., filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of...
On January 2, 2015, the State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and, on April 1, 2015, Palestine became the 123rd Member State of the ICC . Palestine...
In Alabama’s complex history, the remnants of slavery in the state’s prison system cast a long shadow. Following the legal abolition of slavery in Alabama, through the ratification of the Thirteenth...