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.

Ache v. Witte

Ache v. Witte is a federal lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on behalf of 14 medically vulnerable people currently held in immigration detention at Pine Prairie...

Updated: July 15, 2026

Khalil v. The Heritage Foundation et al.

The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, alleging that he was the target of a conspiracy between private actors and federal...

Updated: July 14, 2026

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: July 14, 2026

Al Shimari, et al. v. CACI

A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractors under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.

Updated: July 14, 2026

Burnley v. United States

On October 14, 2025, two Trinidadian men, Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, were killed by a missile strike launched by the United States government. Mr. Joseph and Mr. Samaroo had been fishing...

Updated: July 8, 2026

Rural Roots Louisiana and Mount Triumph Baptist Church v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

In March 2025, federal and state officials announced a massive incentive package for a planned industrial park on the west bank of Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The plan would spell the end of the...

Updated: July 2, 2026

Al Otro Lado v. Noem I

Al Otro Lado, Inc., et al. v. Alejandro Mayorkas, et al. , is a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a...

Updated: June 28, 2026

OLC Drug Cartel Memo FOIA

The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)’s guidance and other related...

Updated: June 24, 2026

Eye on Surveillance, et al. v. New Orleans City Council, et al.

On April 16, 2026, the New Orleans City Council voted to approve a controversial law enforcement program known as the “Drone as First Responder” program. The program would launch drones equipped with...

Updated: June 22, 2026

Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, RISE St. James v. St. James Parish, et al

Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James brought this action against St. James Parish for its decades of environmental racism and discriminatory siting of industrial...

Updated: June 19, 2026

Black Love Resists in the Rust v. City of Buffalo

In the summer of 2012, the Buffalo Police Department created a "Strike Force" Unit to aggressively patrol and conduct vehicle checkpoints in "high crime" areas of the city. While purportedly set up...

Updated: June 3, 2026

ICE Habeas: Carmona Sanchez v. Vergara (Trans Woman Detained in Mississippi)

Sabrina Carmona Sanchez filed a habeas petition on February 2, 2026 challenging her unlawful detention in immigration custody at Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi — a privately...

Updated: June 2, 2026

Khalil v. Trump

Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian activist and graduate student at Columbia University who was active with Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, serving as negotiator with the university and speaking...

Updated: May 30, 2026

Archer et al. v. City of New York

Archer et al. v. City of New York is a federal class action lawsuit against New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), challenging ACS’s widespread and racially discriminatory...

Updated: May 28, 2026

Allan Feliz Article 78 Case

In October 2019, NYPD then-Sergeant Jonathan Rivera shot and killed Allan Feliz during a traffic stop in the Bronx. NYPD officers stated they pulled Allan over for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt,...

Updated: May 27, 2026

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