The Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook explains to prisoners how they can exercise their Constitutional rights to protect themselves from physical abuse, poor conditions and other mistreatment, specifically...
Updated: March 1, 2011
Xuncax v. Gramajo and Ortiz v. Gramajo are two civil damages suits filed on behalf of Guatemalans, all Kanjobal Indians who were brutalized themselves, lost loved ones, and lived in highland villages...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Updated: October 9, 2007
In March 2025, federal and state officials announced a massive incentive package for Hyundai Steel to locate in a planned industrial park on the west bank of Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The plan...
Updated: April 2, 2026
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh is a case filed against the U.S. Attorney General and the head of the INS that alleged they violated domestic and international laws when they denied asylum to...
Updated: October 9, 2007
This case is filed on behalf of two Cameroonian men abused by U.S. immigration officials while engaging in a hunger strike to protest their detention conditions and during their deportations. Both...
Updated: November 15, 2024
A lawsuit that charges the Department of Defense and other government agencies with illegally withholding records concerning the abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody.
Updated: April 15, 2019
CCR has submitted an amicus brief in Glik v. Cunniffe before the First Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Berkeley Copwatch, Communities United against Police Brutality, Justice Committee,...
Updated: September 6, 2011
In recent years and into the current Trump administration, both the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agencies have contracted with technology companies...
Updated: October 30, 2025
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
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