January 24, 2017Lawyers in a landmark stop-and-frisk lawsuit will get more than $11 million from the city for legal fees and costs, the Daily News has learned. David Floyd claimed in a 2008 lawsuit that the NYPD’s...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will join the Deerfield Progressive Forum for the 5th annual CCR presentation to a group of self-described politically sophisticated retirees. Stephanie...
Updated: February 24, 2017
June 19, 2017The Supreme Court on Monday said former George W. Bush administration officials can’t be held liable for the unlawful detainment and abuse suffered by undocumented immigrants detained after the 9/11...
June 19, 2017WASHINGTON (CN) – By a rare 4-2 vote Monday, the Supreme Court sidelined damages claims against high executive officers at the Justice Department over the inhumane treatment suffered by Muslim, South...
November 27, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
March 6, 2018...Tuesday’s testimony marked the first time that a former head of state of a foreign country faced trial in a U.S. civil court for human rights abuses, according to the Center for Constitutional...
April 3, 2018Jurors assigned to the trial of former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada could not reach a verdict after the fifth day of deliberations in a Florida court. ... Read the full piece here.
April 17, 2018...“Coming here does not mean that you have escaped accountability for what you did at home,” says Stephens, a distinguished professor of law at Rutgers, and an attorney at the Center for...
February 13, 2019The September 2015 day that Ashker v. Brown was settled, Dolores Canales’ son had been held in solitary confinement for 15 years. “It was such an emotional morning,” Canales, a founder of the...
April 18, 2019...Some reforms have been driven by actions from within prisons and litigation. For example, thousands of people held in Pelican Bay and other prisons in California participated in a series of hunger...
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