A case brought under the Alien Tort Statute for extrajudicial killing and persecution on behalf of the parents of Isis Obed Murillo, in partnership with El Comité de Familiares de Detenidos...
Updated: December 30, 2014
Federal lawsuit against a U.S.-based anti-gay extremist for his active role in the conspiracy to strip away fundamental rights from LGBTI people in Uganda, which constitutes persecution.
Updated: October 11, 2019
CCR filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief in a criminal case on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of the reversal of Defendant-Appellant Tarek Mehanna’s...
Updated: August 30, 2021
A challenge to the U.S. drone killing of three U.S. citizens in Yemen.
Updated: August 30, 2021
Ongoing revelations of pervasive and serious sexual violence against children and vulnerable adults by priests and others associated with the Catholic Church in different parts of the world have...
Updated: August 20, 2018
A federal class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement as cruel and unusual punishment.
Updated: November 15, 2024
A petition for extraordinary relief filed with the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, and a subsequent writ-appeal filed with the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, seeking access to documents in...
Updated: November 6, 2014
Dorothee Benz is the Communications Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. She came to CCR with more than two decades experience as an editor, journalist, web manager, and communications...
Ghita Schwarz is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works on racial justice, immigrants' rights, and government misconduct and transparency. Her current cases...
Omar Farah is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and is the lead lawyer in Color of Change v. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation , which...
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