April 27, 2020More Buffalo residents sue over discriminatyr traffic ticketing [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, five Black residents of Buffalo joined a lawsuit against the City over its racially...
Lawyers for Ashley Diamond Welcome DOJ Weighing in on Case April 22, 2021 Macon, GA – In response to the Statement of Interest that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed late this afternoon in...
Court should reject 9/11 families and other victims' bid to access funds
April 17, 2013, Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a disappointing decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) , holding that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) does not...
January 8, 2018CCR marks 16 years of Guantánamo [caption align="right"] [/caption] Stay tuned and tune in: on Thursday, January 11, we'll be livestreaming a morning press conference from the National Press Club in...
February 3, 2020REJECTED! Court says no to Hunt & Polo member's case harassing the Ramapough Lenape Nation [caption align="right"] [/caption] A New Jersey court dismissed an attempt by Thomas Powers, a member of...
The principle of universal jurisdiction allows the national authorities of any state to investigate and prosecute people for serious international crimes even if they were committed in another...
Updated: September 8, 2021
By Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Scott Paltrowitz, Volunteer Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer equated...
Updated: November 10, 2011
On May 22, 2007, the judge in the mortgage fraud case of former Haitian death-squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant dropped Constant’s plea bargain in the criminal case and ordered him to go to trial...
Washington, DC — In one of the most important human rights cases of the decade, the Supreme Court of the United States held today, in a 5-4 decision, that the men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay have...
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