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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.

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (Amicus)

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

Black Love Resists in the Rust v. City of Buffalo

In the summer of 2012, the Buffalo Police Department created a "Strike Force" Unit to aggressively patrol and conduct vehicle checkpoints in "high crime" areas of the city. While purportedly set up...
Updated: November 15, 2024

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Derek Lee

This case aims to end the state of Pennsylvania’s mandatory imposition of death-by-incarceration sentences, otherwise known as life without parole, for Derek Lee and others convicted of felony murder...
Updated: October 7, 2024

Austin Sanctuary Network v. Mayorkas

Leaders of the National Sanctuary Collective and allied organizations filed a challenge ICE’s practice of issuing exorbitant civil fines against people who have taken sanctuary in houses of worship,...
Updated: June 22, 2023

Aref v. Garland

A due process challenge to the Communications Management Units (CMUs), two highly restrictive federal prison units that segregate certain prisoners and severely limit and control their communication...
Updated: March 1, 2022

United States v. Johnson

A federal prosecution, under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, of two animal rights activists for allegedly liberating animals from fur farms.
Updated: November 8, 2017

Hassan v. City of New York

Challenges the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans on the basis of their Muslim identity
Updated: March 18, 2022

Ag-gag litigation (Amicus)

Amicus briefs supporting animal rights and other activists' challenges to state “ag-gag” laws.
Updated: December 3, 2019

Amicus Brief in Glik v. Cunniffe, et al.

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

Migrant Justice v. Nielsen

Lawsuit on behalf of Vermont-based Migrant Justice against ICE, DHS, and the Vermont DMV.
Updated: March 4, 2021

Furlow v. Belmar

For many years, St. Louis and surrounding Missouri counties have permitted police officers to issue the equivalent of a statewide arrest warrant into an electronic database, designating an individual...
Updated: December 8, 2022

Jordahl v. Brnovich (Amicus)

Jordahl v. Brnovich is a case that challenges Arizona’s 2016 anti-BDS law that forbids the state from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. The Center for Constitutional Rights and...
Updated: September 17, 2020

K.W. v. The City of New York (Amicus Brief)

When K.W.’s son, K.A. was just six days old, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) separated him from his parents without court order. After his extrajudicial removal, K.A...
Updated: April 22, 2025

White Hat v. Murrill

In 2018, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA) drafted and proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s Critical Infrastructure law, which was passed by the legislature, that is so...
Updated: June 24, 2025

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