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Human Rights Watch
April 20, 2018
April 19, 2018. Dear Senator: We are a diverse group of organizations from the faith, human rights, civil liberties, and open government communities, among many others, writing to urge you to oppose Gina Haspel's nomination for CIA Director. It remains undisputed that Ms. Haspel was deeply involved inÃâà...
Harvard Law School News
April 13, 2018
After the lawsuit was filed, a strong litigation team formed: In addition to Becker, Giannini and Farbstein from IHRC, there was Chomsky and Beth Stephens, both cooperating attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Steven Schulman, leading a team of pro bono attorneys from Akin GumpÃâà...
MyDaytonDailyNews
April 8, 2018
The case was led by a legal team from the Center for Constitutional Rights and Harvard's International Human Rights Clinic, in addition to several law firms. The claims were brought under the Alien Tort Act, a little known law initially intended to hold pirates accountable for crimes in international waters, andÃâà...
Chicago Daily Herald
April 5, 2018
Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Baher Azmy says the deal protects an increasingly empowered Muslim community. The agreement resolved a 2012 suit in Newark, New Jersey, after The Associated Press revealed how the NYPD infiltrated Muslim student groups and put informants inÃâà...
Center For American Progress
April 5, 2018
She is among the nation's leading scholars writing on law, rights, and religion. She has over 30 years of experience as a lawyer in social justice movements, including as chair of the board of trustees of the Center for Constitutional Rights, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, and founder of theÃâà...
TIME
April 3, 2018
The jury found the former officials responsible because they had ordered the military to use deadly force in the confrontations. “The plaintiffs demonstrated immense courage in relentlessly pursuing justice for over a decade,” said Judith Chomsky, a Center for Constitutional Rights attorney for the plaintiffs.
St. Louis American
March 28, 2018
The Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights first filed the FOIA request to the agencies in October 2016 to uncover how DHS and the FBI were monitoring the Movement for Black Lives as well as Black protestors and organizers exercising their First Amendment constitutional rights atÃâà...
SNJ Today
December 31, 1999
A consortium of United States human rights lawyers including Beth Stephens, a Rutgers Law professor, have won a landmark case against Bolivia's ex-president and former defense minister after a U.S. federal court jury found them legally responsible for planning and ordering the use of military force toÃâà...
