This case involves a corporate trade group's challenge to 40 years of precedent limiting the government's ability to withhold information requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On...
Reversing Decades of Precedent, Highest Court Allows Private Corporations to Block Release of Government Information June 24, 2019, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court reversed decades of...
...The settlement was signed Friday said Jen Nessel, a spokesperson with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented the tribe in the federal lawsuit. It dismisses all fines levied...
...Two nonprofit respondents, Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights, successfully argued in the lower courts that while GEO certainly had an “interest” in withholding these...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights senior staff attorney, Chinyere Ezie , at the 2019 Lavender Law ® Conference & Career Fair as she the shifting nature of the...
Join us for a community workshop focused on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is holding its annual meeting in Austin between Aug 14-16. ALEC is dedicated to the corporate take-...
...“By supporting redistricting, ALEC is engaging in another direct attack on the right to vote for people of color, and it comes after years of ALEC promoting restrictive and unconstitutional voter...
August 14, 2019, New York – In response to the Trump administration’s new proposed rule, Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption, which would...
Civil and Human Rights groups join with Indigenous, Racial, Palestinian, and Environmental Justice activists to condemn ALEC for attacking people of color and the climate August 15, 2019 Today, as...
On the 17th episode of “The Activist Files,” Communications Associate Josh Manson talks with Janice Dickerson and her attorney, Christopher Meeks, about the struggle to protect a historically Black...
