http://www.cir-usa.org/ The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual liberties against the increasingly aggressive and unchecked authority of federal and state governments. http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#244 May 15, 2013 -- Today CIR filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court in one of the most important cases the Court will hear this term, ... 2013-05-15 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#243 April 30, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA -- CIR today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of 10 California ... 2013-04-30 11:57:39 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#242 March 3, 2013 --Today CIR filed a notice of appearance in the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on behalf of our client Kathryn Miller, who was sentenced to ... 2013-03-03 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#241 January 31, 2013 -- Today CIR filed a notice of appeal from a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Guam dismissing our client Arnold Davis's case challenging Guam's ... 2013-01-31 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#240 January 4, 2013 -- Today CIR filed its reply papers in its motion to quash a subpoena issued to the Wikimedia Foundation in a lawsuit that will have the effect ... 2013-01-04 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#238 December 27, 2012 -- Together with lead counsel Michael Carvin, CIR has filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder, another constitutional challenge to Section ... 2012-12-27 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#237 December 5, 2012 -- CIR filed a motion to intervene in New Hampshire v. Holder on behalf of our client Peter Heilemann, a New Hampshire resident.  CIR is asking the ... 2012-12-05 16:32:26 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#236 November 15, 2012 -- Today a deeply divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in an 8 to 7 ruling, declared Michigan's Proposal 2 unconstitutional. This decision conflicts with an earlier decision by the Ninth ... 2012-11-15 15:01:16 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#234 November 13, 2012 - The Supreme Court today denied CIR's petition for certiorari in Nix v. Holder, CIR's case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  Though disappointing, the ... 2012-11-13 11:33:58 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#233 October 22, 2012 -- On August 15, CIR achieved a significant victory against race preferences in federal contracting when the DC federal district court ruled that the Small Business Administration's ... 2012-10-22 12:20:58 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#232 October 11, 2012 -- In an interview with ABC News and in her new book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama, deservedly-famous CIR alumna Ann Coulter discusses her time at ... 2012-10-11 15:14:11 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#230 October 10, 2012 -- Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a university applicant's challenge to race preferences in admissions at the University of Texas.  Abigail Fisher, who is ... 2012-10-10 15:55:53 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#231 October 9, 2012 -- Today CIR filed its reply on its petition to the Supreme Court to hear Nix v. Holder, its case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights ... 2012-10-09 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#229 September 21, 2012 -- Today, in Mueller v. Auker, CIR filed a petition for rehearing by the full Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in which we seek to reverse a ruling by a three-judge ... 2012-09-21 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#228 September 14, 2012 - As we wait to see if the Supreme Court will take up one of the cases challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, ABC News ... 2012-09-14 16:17:33