Lawyers for the plaintiffs-including attorney and Duke University law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, Gwynne Skinner from the International Human Rights Clinic at Seattle University School of Law, and Maria LaHood of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York-have countered that the U.S. government has publicly condemned Israel's policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the West Bank in order to build Israeli settlements on the land.
In court papers, the ACLU reveals how this branch of the world's largest aerospace company collaborates with Hayden's men in black to ignore both our laws and international treaties: In providing its services to the CIA, Jeppesen knew or reasonably should have known that plaintiffs would be subjected to forced disappearances, detention, and torture in countries where such practices are routine. [...] just in time for Independence Day, Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Washington Square legal services have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of New York against the CIA and the Justice, Defense, and State departments to get all the secrets of these CIA "renditions.
NEW YORK - Federal lawsuits were filed Tuesday seeking to halt President Bush's domestic eavesdropping program, calling it an "illegal and unconstitutional program" of electronic eavesdropping on American citizens. The lawsuits accusing Mr. Bush of exceeding his constitutional powers were filed in federal court in New York by the Center for Constitutional Rights and in Detroit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
PARIS (AP) - American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay. The complaint was filed with the Paris prosecutor's office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit, according to the New York- based Center for Constitutional Rights, the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and two Paris-based groups, the International Federation of Human Rights and the League of Human Rights.
... about freedom of speech, reproductive rights, racial equality, gay marriage, and bioethics. Jud... to familiar continental legal values centered on the community. (26) These strains exist in Amer... Ginsburg, Remarks at City University of New York School of Law (Mar. 11, 2004), in 7 N.Y. CITY L. R...
NEW YORK Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday in federal court that seek to end President Bush's electronic eavesdropping program, saying it is illegal and exceeds his constitutional powers. The lawsuits one filed in New York by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the other in Detroit by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups say the program bypasses safeguards in a 1978 law requiring court approval of electronic monitoring.
Detainee petition filed The nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, of New York, said it filed a habeas corpus petition in federal district court in Washington on behalf of Majid Khan, a Maryland resident who is one of the 14 "ghost detainees" transferred to prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, on orders of President Bush. CCR said it is challenging the constitutionality of denying non-citizen detainees the right of habeas corpus. According to CCR, Khan, a Pakistani native whose family emigrated to the United States in 1996, is a 1999 graduate of Owings Mills High School, and subsequently worked for the state of Maryland. He was arrested by Pakistani authorities during a visit there in 2002, turned over to the Central Intelligence Agency, held incommunicado for 31/2 years, and allegedly "sub...
S. Predator drone aircraft armed with Hellfire missiles carried out the targeted killing Friday in Yemen of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was a U.S. citizen. They also killed another American who produced propaganda for al-Qaida. The top al-Qaida bomb-maker in Yemen also died in the attack.
... also killed Samir Khan, who grew up in New York and ran a pro-al-Qaida website in Charlotte, N.C.,...Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney at Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, a liberal...
MORGANTOWN - A handful of freelance journalists and computer programmers are launching what they hope will become Appalachia's own version of WikiLeaks, a website where government and corporate whistle blowers can anonymously share documents. Honest Appalachia launches Tuesday, and co-founder and spokesman Jim Tobias says it will be a place where people can safely post information without fear of being identified as the source and suffering retaliation. Users download a software program to render their own computers anonymous, and the Honest Appalachia team then strips out other data that could make the document traceable.
... enlisted support from attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the Nati...
MORGANTOWN - A handful of freelance journalists and computer programmers are launching what they hope will become Appalachia's own version of WikiLeaks, a website where government and corporate whistle-blowers can anonymously share documents. Honest Appalachia launched Tuesday, and co-founder and spokesman Jim Tobias says it will be a place where people can safely post information without fear of being identified as the source and suffering retaliation. Users download a software program to render their own computers anonymous, and the Honest Appalachia team then strips out other data that could make the document traceable.
... enlisted support from attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the Nati...
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