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.

FOIA Request Regarding Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (“GHF”) aka “Global Humanitarian Fund” is a private corporation registered on November 11, 2024 as a “charitable nonprofit” in Delaware. The Boston Consulting Group...

Updated: October 20, 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: September 30, 2026

American Friends Service Committee, et al. v. Trump, et al.

On February 6, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order authorizing sanctions on staff of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and people or entities who engage with the court to seek...

Updated: September 28, 2026

Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al.

A federal class action lawsuit against the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop and frisks.

Updated: September 28, 2026

Make the Road New York v. DHS

This case challenges the Trump administration's new rule to restrict U.S. immigration on "public charge" grounds, building upon our prior success challenging the first Trump administration's similar...

Updated: September 21, 2026

Rural Roots Louisiana, et al., v. Port of South Louisiana

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: September 17, 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: September 17, 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: September 15, 2026

Estate of Sivan Sha'arabany, et al. v. UNRWA USA National Committee Inc. and UNRWA

UNRWA USA National Committee Inc. (UNRWA USA) is a U.S. nonprofit that supports the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Following the attacks of...

Updated: September 15, 2026

Rural Roots Louisiana and Louisiana Bucket Brigade v. Ascension Parish

Facing another threatened industrial buildout in the heart of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, Rural Roots Louisiana and Louisiana Bucket Brigade brought a public records case against Ascension Parish...

Updated: September 8, 2026

Rural Roots Louisiana, et al. v. Louisiana Division of Administration, et al.

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: August 24, 2026

Doe v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Amicus)

ATS case bringing claims that U.S. technology company Cisco Systems, Inc. aided and abetted serious human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China

Updated: August 20, 2026

Durham County, ex rel: Maggie Clapp v. Amanda Shenelle Wallace

Amanda Wallace is the founder of Operation Stop CPS (OSCPS) , a North Carolina-based grassroots campaign that builds people power to abolish the family policing (“child welfare”) system and end the...

Updated: August 13, 2026

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: August 7, 2026

In Re: B.CD & B.CB (Maryland's Safe Haven)

In September 2024, Ms. C, a 23-year-old woman, and mother of two older children, gave birth to twins. At the time, overwhelmed and without adequate support, she felt that she could not give the twins...

Updated: July 30, 2026

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