The Center for Constitutional Rights seeks damages from the United States government pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil. The complaint describes serious...
Updated: July 20, 2026
On March 19, 2026, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed a complaint on behalf of seven plaintiffs representing a class of Yemeni...
Updated: July 17, 2026
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, 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
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
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
In May 2025, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a state law, SB185, that prohibits the provision of hormone therapy and other forms of healthcare for gender dysphoria in Georgia state prisons,...
Updated: May 5, 2026
Devyn Elijah Springer, who goes by the pen name Musa, is a Black, Muslim, queer activist and journalist from the Atlanta area. On April 8, 2025, they were stopped by U.S. Customs and Border...
Updated: April 16, 2025
A federal lawsuit on behalf of 13 Yemeni-Americans for the unlawful revocation of their family members’ previously approved visas due to the Muslim Ban.
Updated: February 20, 2025
Amidst the completion of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country, over 124,000 Afghan civilians were evacuated. Those evacuated were sent to several processing...
Updated: January 14, 2025
A federal lawsuit that challenges the FBI’s abuse of the No-Fly List to coerce law-abiding American Muslims into spying on their religious communities.
Updated: October 29, 2024
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson is a case about the criminalization of poverty. The Supreme Court has decided whether people experiencing involuntary homelessness in a city with no safe, available...
Updated: June 28, 2024
In 2003, in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas , the United States Supreme Court declared that state statutes that criminalize sodomy are unconstitutional. In its sweeping decision, the Supreme...
Updated: April 13, 2023
On behalf of Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), the Center for Constitutional Rights and the NYU School of Law's Global Justice Clinic filed a FOIA request to the CIA, DOD, and other federal agencies...
Updated: July 13, 2022
Challenges the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans on the basis of their Muslim identity
Updated: March 18, 2022
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