Wallace v. Kern is a class action lawsuit filed by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of seven indigent inmates awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention. These men had filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on May 21, 2004, urging the Court to grant a writ of certiorari and to review the decision of the Tenth Circuit...
Updated: October 9, 2007
“Puerto Rican Subversives List” refers to the work CCR did with the Instituto Puertorriqueño de Derechos Civilies, an organization founded by José Antonio “Abi” Lugo, a former CCR attorney, and other...
Updated: October 9, 2007
United States v. Union Nacional de Trabajadores is a lawsuit that grew out of National Labor Relations Board v. Union Nacional de Trabajadores . The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Bick v. Mitchell is a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Dombrowski v. Pfister is a government misconduct case brought in 1965 against the governor of Louisiana, law enforcement officers, and the chairperson of the state's Legislative Joint Committee on Un...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Brown v. City of Chattanooga is one of CCR’s municipal at-large cases, which consist of several cases filed on behalf of voters of color to challenge the at-large electoral system for violating the...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Amicus in support of a petition in which asserts that domestic violence victims have the right to be protected by the state from the violent acts of their abusers.
Updated: October 23, 2008
“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
Since the first habeas corpus petition for detainees was filed on February 19, 2002, CCR has helped coordinate a movement of over 500 pro bono attorneys who have filed habeas petitions for more than...
Updated: January 11, 2010
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