...This week on Intercepted, Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the ICJ case as well as a lawsuit Opens in a new tab CCR has filed against...
December 7, 2010 WASHINGTON – A federal court today acknowledged the serious issues raised by a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s targeted killing policy, but dismissed the...
October 31, 2013, New York – Today, the Court of Appeals granted the City of New York’s request for a stay of the joint remedial process ordered in the landmark class action lawsuit Floyd...
Court Rejects Requested Injunction May 3, 2019, New York – Today, in response to a Superior Court ruling in New Jersey that categorically rejected an injunction requested by the Ramapo Hunt and Polo...
...Al-Alaqi v. Panetta was a lawsuit filed in 2012 challenging the targeted drone killings by the United States of three U.S. citizens in Yemen. Although the U.S. government has carried out targeted...
January 2, 2009, New York, NY - On December 17, 2008, the government attempted to halt the cases of approximately 20 detainees the Defense Department had cleared for transfer out of Guantanamo. This...
January 2, 2014 , Washington – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) petitioned the Supreme Court to review their case challenging surveillance by the National...
Biden, Blinken, and Austin claim “foreign policy” decisions are exempt from judicial review; legal team argues in appeal reply brief submitted today that aiding and abetting genocide can never be a...
In a decision cheered by human rights organizations and immigrant justice activists, the Supreme Court ruled in Benitez v. Mata (also known as Martinez v. Clark) on January 12, 2005 that the...
November 15, 2007, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the first Guantánamo case before the European Court of Human Rights. The petitioners in this...
