Active Cases

Since 1966, CCR has pioneered daring and innovative legal strategies in pursuit of its mission to advance and protect the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our work began on behalf of civil rights activists, and since then CCR has lent its expertise and support to virtually every popular progressive movement.

Our current cases reflects our unwavering commitment to progressive principles, people’s movements and human rights as well as our creative use of the law as a positive force for social change.

Tawfic Abdel Jabbar FOIA Request

Tawfic Abdel Jabbar was a 17-year-old American citizen born and raised in Gretna, Louisiana. His family moved to the United States nearly 30 years ago, where his father and uncle opened a Louisiana...

Updated: August 22, 2025

People of the State of California vs. Wayne Hsiung (Amicus Brief)

At a protest by Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), the leading open-animal-rescue activist organization, protesters entered a duck farm and chained themselves to the front gate. Wayne Hsiung arrived...

Updated: August 6, 2025

Guantánamo Executive Order FOIA

Rights groups are seeking information about President Trump’s plan to establish a massive immigration detention center, by far the country’s largest, at Guantánamo. With immigrants arriving in...

Updated: July 29, 2025

Know Your Rights Videos FOIA Lawsuit

On March 11, 2025, CCR, Amica Center and Florence Project submitted a FOIA request to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeking records concerning the February 18, 2025 “stop work”...

Updated: July 29, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil Federal Tort Claims Act Complaint

The Center for Constitional Rights seeks damages from the United States government pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil. The adminstrative claim describes...

Updated: July 10, 2025

Ortiz v. Orange County, N.Y.

Ortiz et al. v. Orange County, NY et al. is a federal lawsuit against Orange County in New York, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and county officials for their punitive retaliation...

Updated: July 10, 2025

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center v. Noem/ Suazo-Muller v. Noem

Since February 4, 2025, in now daily flights, the government has reportedly transferred dozens of immigrants from the United States to Guantánamo. While their photos have been publicized—with scared...

Updated: July 10, 2025

Al Otro Lado v. Trump (AOL III)

“AOL III” is the latest challenge to the U.S. government’s policy of denying access to the asylum process to migrants at the Southern border. It follows our landmark lawsuit Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas...

Updated: June 25, 2025

White Hat v. Murrill

In 2018, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA) drafted and proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s Critical Infrastructure law, which was passed by the legislature, that is so...

Updated: June 24, 2025

ICE Citizens Academy FOIA

In July 2020, ICE announced it would be holding a "Citizens Academy" in Chicago, Illinois where civilian invitees would be trained in various enforcement techniques used by the law enforcement agency...

Updated: June 24, 2025

Alexander, et al, v. St. James Parish

The Center Constitutional Rights represents Inclusive Louisiana and Mount Triumph Baptist Church in their appeal of the local government's approval of a request by Koch Methanol to expand its...

Updated: May 15, 2025

American Association of University Professors & American Federation of Teachers v. U.S. Department of Justice (Amicus)

The Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal filed a "friend of the court" brief in the lawsuit against the Trump administration's abrupt cancellation of $400 million in critical federal...

Updated: May 12, 2025

Taylor v. Trump

This lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief from the Trump administration’s express targeting of plaintiffs for categorical, unjustified, and unconstitutional punishment by incarceration in...

Updated: April 23, 2025

K.W. v. The City of New York (Amicus Brief)

When K.W.’s son, K.A. was just six days old, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) separated him from his parents without court order. After his extrajudicial removal, K.A...

Updated: April 22, 2025

Defense for Children International - Palestine v. Biden

Palestinian human rights organizations, together with Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S., filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of...

Updated: April 16, 2025

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