Pamela Spees Senior Staff AttorneyRelated ContentCases Alexander, et al, v. St. James ParishThe Center Constitutional Rights represents Inclusive Louisiana and Mount Triumph Baptist Church in their appeal of the local government's approval of a request by Koch Methanol to expand its... Defense for Children International - Palestine v. BidenPalestinian 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... Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, RISE St. James v. St. James Parish, et alInclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James brought this action against St. James Parish for its decades of environmental racism and discriminatory siting of industrial... RISE St. James - The Fight to Protect Burial Sites of Enslaved PeopleRISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots organization formed to advocate for racial and environmental justice in St. James, Louisiana, learned in November 2019 that graves of people enslaved on... White Hat v. LandryIn 2018, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA) drafted and proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s Critical Infrastructure law, which was passed by the legislature, that is so... Opposition to Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Eminent Domain LawsuitA challenge on behalf of landowners in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company’s (BBP) eminent domain lawsuit. No Bayou Bridge Pipeline - Governor Public Records PetitionThis petition follows a public records request to the Governor of Louisiana's Office for any records of meetings and/or communications between the Governor and his staff and agents of several... No Bayou Bridge Pipeline - St. Charles Parish Petition for Public RecordsThe Center for Constitutional Rights filed a petition in Louisiana state court seeking the release of records relating to the St. Charles Sheriff's travel and communications regarding TigerSwan LLC... Energy Transfer Equity, et al, v. Greenpeace, Earth First! et alIn 2017, the partial owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer Equity, filed a bizarre and far-fetched lawsuit naming various environmental organizations and "Earth First!" as defendants... No Bayou Bridge Pipeline - Petition to InterveneEnergy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), is now seeking to develop a 162-mile pipeline in Louisiana. ETP contracts with private security corporations to... Pages12next ›last » Opinion Remembering Barbara Blaine, a visionary advocate for survivors everywhere September 26, 2017By Pamela SpeesBarbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our... Eight Years After the Coup in Honduras, The Struggle ContinuesJune 28, 2017By Pamela SpeesToday marks the eighth anniversary of the coup d’etat in Honduras. On June 28, 2009, former President Manuel Zelaya, who was democratically elected and later embarked on a platform of progressive... The other Trump executive order you may not have heard aboutApril 7, 2017By Nahal ZamaniPamela SpeesTrump signed yet another executive order last week, this one undermining the rights of workers. The March 27, 2017, order revoked three previous orders issued by President Obama related to federal... On coup anniversary, examining the U.S. role in HondurasJune 27, 2016By Pamela SpeesTomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an... Videos Critics of Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana Decry State & Company Surveillance of ProtestersMarch 13, 2018In Louisiana, newly disclosed documents reveal a state intelligence agency regularly spied on activists opposing construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline, which would carry nearly a half-million... The Pope is Dishonest About Zero Tolerance for Child Sex AbuseSeptember 24, 2015Pam Spees of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Barbara Blaine of SNAP say the Catholic Church and Pope Francis are not serious about addressing the church's on-going struggles with child... Stop Scott Lively's global persecution of LGBTI people.January 2014Our case against Scott Lively is entering a critical phase and you can help. Visit our Stop Scott Lively campaign on crowdrise for more details.
Alexander, et al, v. St. James ParishThe Center Constitutional Rights represents Inclusive Louisiana and Mount Triumph Baptist Church in their appeal of the local government's approval of a request by Koch Methanol to expand its...
Defense for Children International - Palestine v. BidenPalestinian 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...
Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, RISE St. James v. St. James Parish, et alInclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James brought this action against St. James Parish for its decades of environmental racism and discriminatory siting of industrial...
RISE St. James - The Fight to Protect Burial Sites of Enslaved PeopleRISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots organization formed to advocate for racial and environmental justice in St. James, Louisiana, learned in November 2019 that graves of people enslaved on...
White Hat v. LandryIn 2018, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA) drafted and proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s Critical Infrastructure law, which was passed by the legislature, that is so...
Opposition to Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Eminent Domain LawsuitA challenge on behalf of landowners in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company’s (BBP) eminent domain lawsuit.
No Bayou Bridge Pipeline - Governor Public Records PetitionThis petition follows a public records request to the Governor of Louisiana's Office for any records of meetings and/or communications between the Governor and his staff and agents of several...
No Bayou Bridge Pipeline - St. Charles Parish Petition for Public RecordsThe Center for Constitutional Rights filed a petition in Louisiana state court seeking the release of records relating to the St. Charles Sheriff's travel and communications regarding TigerSwan LLC...
Energy Transfer Equity, et al, v. Greenpeace, Earth First! et alIn 2017, the partial owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer Equity, filed a bizarre and far-fetched lawsuit naming various environmental organizations and "Earth First!" as defendants...
No Bayou Bridge Pipeline - Petition to InterveneEnergy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), is now seeking to develop a 162-mile pipeline in Louisiana. ETP contracts with private security corporations to...
Remembering Barbara Blaine, a visionary advocate for survivors everywhere September 26, 2017By Pamela SpeesBarbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our...
Eight Years After the Coup in Honduras, The Struggle ContinuesJune 28, 2017By Pamela SpeesToday marks the eighth anniversary of the coup d’etat in Honduras. On June 28, 2009, former President Manuel Zelaya, who was democratically elected and later embarked on a platform of progressive...
The other Trump executive order you may not have heard aboutApril 7, 2017By Nahal ZamaniPamela SpeesTrump signed yet another executive order last week, this one undermining the rights of workers. The March 27, 2017, order revoked three previous orders issued by President Obama related to federal...
On coup anniversary, examining the U.S. role in HondurasJune 27, 2016By Pamela SpeesTomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an...