...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...
...In a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Senior Staff Attorney Pamela Spees said: “The average person can find themselves facing five years in prison for literally just...
...“Despite a federal court finding, despite years and years of statistics that have shown severe and frankly unjustifiable racial disparities in who they are policing and how they are policing them...
... The struggle to create a better world is, at times, painful. However, there is beauty in those who continue to pursue justice for the most vulnerable of us. This is the work of the Center for...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights points out that zero tolerance “is meant to be cruel…to punish families. It is intentionally inhumane.” The Southern Poverty Law Center states “the...
... The next day, Dr. Filártiga and his daughter filed a wrongful-death suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. Although both parties were Paraguayan and the death occurred overseas, Dr. Filártiga’s...
... Alongside persistent concerns of civilian safety due to the seemingly endless war in Afghanistan is an ongoing battle for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe possible war crimes and...
..."What the government is saying in response to these cases, that they're not revocations, is a matter of semantics," said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She...
...The Department of Investigation, an independent city watchdog, found officers received nearly 2,500 biased complaints between 2014 and 2018. A third of the cases were investigated by the DOI,...
