... Both are the subject of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in June against the City of Buffalo by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and the...
... Pam Spees, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights who is representing groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge project, said the situation raises important concerns about...
... The “Protect the Protest” task force announced Tuesday targets what are known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP, which use legal action and the threat of financial risk...
Survivors of clergy sex abuse stood in front of the Vatican embassy in Washington on Thursday and urged two higher powers -- the Pope and the US Department of Justice -- to take concrete steps to...
In this op-ed, Aliya Hana Hussain, advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, explains her work advocating for men detained in the Guantánamo Bay prison that opened in the wake...
...At least 10 members of the group now face the felony-trespassing charge; as of this writing, Pamela Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, says they are waiting to see...
...Property owners filed new documents in St. Martin Parish on Wednesday that question whether oil companies may take land at all. The Louisiana constitution allows gas pipeline builders to seize...
... "The amendment is trying to streamline and focus the lawsuit to what we see as the real issue -- religious discrimination against the Ramapough Lenape tribe," said Darius Charney, an attorney for...
... Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Wells Dixon , whose Guantánamo client Majid Khan awaits sentencing in a war court plea deal, tweeted: “I hope this happens! It would clearly strengthen...
...Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled in 2013 that the law violated the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens , and that the practice was “racially discriminatory” because of the disproportionate numbers of...
