December 11, 2020...“Simply getting to the Supreme Court and shining a light on these kinds of abuses, FBI practices, is in and of itself extremely important and kind of previously unthinkable,” Diala Shamas, an...
December 11, 2020...A Black transgender woman has filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections, claiming the agency’s inaction has led to her suffering repeated abuses, including sexual assault and...
December 11, 2020... The Center for Constitutional Rights is representing her in her second lawsuit along with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which handled the original case. Chinyere Ezie, an attorney with...
December 11, 2020... “Simply getting to the Supreme Court and shining a light on these kinds of abuses, FBI practices, is in and of itself extremely important and kind of previously unthinkable,” Diala Shamas, an...
December 16, 2020... In 2013, the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) Clinic of CUNY School of Law filed a complaint , later joined by the Center For Constitutional Rights, aimed at...
February 9, 2021...“I am heartened by the decrease in both the use of stop-and-frisk and drug arrests during the de Blasio administration, but I am still very concerned by the severe racial disparities in both of...
May 14, 2021...Diamond’s legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center released a statement saying they were “encouraged” by the Biden administration’s decision to jump...
September 16, 2021...Marred by accusations the government has withheld and falsified evidence, and wiretapped defense attorneys, the biggest cloud hanging over the cases is that defendants say they were brutally...
A hearing will be held on October 28th in our case, Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California...
Updated: October 22, 2021
November 6, 2021...Khan's legal team, led by Wells Dixon of The Center for Constitutional Rights, reached the more favorable sentencing deal after agreeing to forgo an evidentiary hearing that would have involved...
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