The Supreme Court will hear CCR's case Al Odah v. U.S. this term.
Between current and past cases we have approximately 150 case descriptions available here. This list can be ordered by date or name, and filtered by the issues to which they relate.
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Dotson v. City of Indianola, Mississippi is a case in which the city was compelled to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
Douglas v. Holloman is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) defended New York City guidelines on sterilization procedures on behalf of women and groups concerned about sterilization.
Drew Municipal School District v. Andrews is a lawsuit brought by two Black women against a Mississippi school district for refusing to hire them because they had children out of wedlock.
Drinan, et al. v. Ford, et al. was an attempt to get an injunction restraining the members of the executive branch from conducting military operations in Cambodia without congressional authority. The case was dismissed in…
DuVernay v. United States is a lawsuit in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the exclusion of Black people from draft boards in predominately Black neighborhoods.
Filártiga v. Peña-Irala is a lawsuit filed in 1979 charging former Paraguayan official Americo Peña-Irala with the wrongful death of Joelito Filártiga.
Finley v. NEA challenged the decency provision in government grants to artists through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), in collaboration with Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), and Washington Square Legal Services (WSLS), filed this lawsuit against the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of State…
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the public interest organization Public Good joined together to submit an amicus brief in support of the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in this case. The Frazier case and…
This is a complaint filed in France by CCR and European human rights organizations against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for ordering and authorizing torture.
On May 31, 2010, a six-boat flotilla, carrying more than 700 civilians from almost 40 countries seeking to bring humanitarian and rebuilding supplies to the Gaza Strip as well as to break the Israeli blockade…
On November 14, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution that will look into the responsibility of…
Goodman, et al. v. St. Paul, et al. is a lawsuit brought on behalf of three journalists against federal and local Minneapolis and St. Paul law enforcement. The lawsuit alleges that their policies and conduct…
Goosby v. Town of Hempstead was a case in which Hempstead, New York’s racially discriminatory at-large voting system was contested. A transformation of the voting system was forced on the Long Island town as a…
Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles v. Reagan is a case which sought to use the U.S. legal system to enjoin the United States from deploying first-use nuclear missiles in Great Britain.
Gulino v. The Board of Education of the City of New York and the New York State Education Department is a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of public school teachers of color who are…
Haase v. Webster is a case which challenged the authority of U.S. Customs officials to seize and copy the written materials of travelers to Nicaragua.
For the 1.5 million people still living in displacement camps, forced evictions pose an immediate threat of grave and irreparable harm, according to a coalition of human rights advocates who testified in October 2010 before…
Among the many human rights issues ongoing in the IDP camps is that there is little or no security and women and girls are at heightened risk of rape and sexual assault. Many women report…
On January 6, 2011, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the University of Miami School of Law Human Rights and Immigration Clinics, the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Alternative Chance and the Loyola Law Clinic and Center…
Haitian Centers Council, Inc. v. Sale was a case which secured an order in federal court that closed the detention camp for HIV-positive Haitian refugees at Guantánamo.
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is a habeas corpus petition in which Salim Ahmed Hamdan challenged the authority and policy of military commissions at Guantánamo Bay.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld is a case that challenged the arrest and denial of due process to U.S. citizen Yaser Esam Hamdi before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hamer v. Campell is a civil rights case which Fannie Lou Hamer brought against Cecil Campbell, the circuit clerk of Mississippi, for denying her and other Black people the right to register and vote.
