February 5, 2009, New York – Attorneys for Mohammed al Qahtani, the victim of the “First Special Interrogation Plan” overseen by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, filed a motion last night...
April 27, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and its co-counsel asked the Supreme Court to take up the case against CACI and L-3 Services (formerly Titan), two...
December 11, 2013, New York – Today, as Pope Francis was named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and the Center for...
Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) case, Blum v. Holder ¸ challenging the...
Hearing in Consolidated Blackwater-Xe cases on Defendants’ motion to enjoin the parties from making extrajudicial statements The lawsuits Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and...
Updated: August 5, 2009
Hearing in Consolidated Blackwater-Xe cases on Defendants' motion to dismiss. The lawsuits Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc., et al. and Estates of...
Updated: August 5, 2009
A Discussion of Collateral Murder & Targeted Assassinations- 7P.M. The event will begin with a screening of Collateral Murder. Commentary by Ethan McCord , dissident veteran of Bravo Company 2-16...
Updated: October 15, 2010
Oral argument on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta lawsuit challenging U.S. "Targeted Killings" will be heard by Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the United States...
Updated: July 17, 2013
Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
Updated: March 24, 2009
The multinational corporation Shell financed, armed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military forces that used deadly force and conducted massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people of...
Updated: May 30, 2015
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