March in the Ninth Ward to Congo Square marking anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
CCR was born out of the Civil Rights movement, and racial, gender and economic justice have been cornerstones of our docket throughout our history. From pioneering pro-choice and anti-domestic violence cases, to fighting employment discrimination and racial profiling, CCR finds innovative ways to challenge the status quo and support activists and movements engaged around these central questions of injustice.
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The more people that know, the better. A surprisingly small number of people know about…
This Handbook explains how a person in a state prison can start a lawsuit in the…
There has been dramatic growth in the number of people held in local jails in…
Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al. is a federal class action lawsuit filed against the New York City Police Department that challenges the racial profiling snd unconstitutional stop-and frisk practices of…
Gulino v. The Board of Education of the City of New York and the New York State Education Department is a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of public school teachers of color who are…
Join us from 8:00am – 9:00am outside the courthouse on the first day of Toto Constant’s trial for grand larceny and mortgage fraud to bear witness as Constant faces justice in the U.S. and to stand in solidarity with the… Read More >>
April 25, 2008, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which brought the historic NYPD racial profiling case Daniels v. City of New York in 1999 in the wake of the Amadou Diallo killing, issued the following… Read More >>
Wright v. Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, et al. is a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), together with attorneys from the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the National Lawyers Guild, that challenged the constitutionality… Read More >>
The Concerned Faculty and Staff of the City University of New York (CUNY) and individual students and faculty members filed this lawsuit alleging that poor and students of color were being discriminated against in terms of per-pupil state funding. Read More >>
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