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For more than a decade, Joseph Casias of Battle Creek, Mich. has endured the painful symptoms of an inoperable brain tumor and cancer.

Manuel Velez, an innocent man, was released from a Texas prison today after almost nine years behind bars, four on death row. Rather than risk a new trial that could be plagued with the same problems that sent him to death row, Velez, an ºìÐÓÊÓƵ client, pleaded no contest to a lesser charge.

Whether a traffic stop based on a police officer’s mistaken understanding of the traffic laws violates the Fourth Amendment.

The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ filed a request for precautionary measures with the Organization of American States' Inter-American Commission on Human Rights showing that the execution of John Winfield, scheduled for June 18, 2014 in the state of Missouri, will cause irreparable harm should it go forward. The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ asks that the executions be stayed until the IACHR can review and rule on the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ's petition that alleges Mr. Winfield's death sentence violates international law. On June 6, 2014, the IACHR granted ºìÐÓÊÓƵ request for precautionary measures against the United States and requested that "the Government of the United States to abstain from executing John Winfield until the IACHR has ruled on the merits of the individual petition filed on his behalf."