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.

Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections (Amicus)

Reiyn Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections concerns whether incarcerated transgender people have a right to comprehensive gender dysphoria treatment, including healthcare related to social...

Updated: February 4, 2019

Gladney v. United States (Amicus)

The Center for Constitutional Rights, Lambda Legal, and Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of 16 non-profit and grassroots...

Updated: October 22, 2020

FOIA Request Regarding International Criminal Court Prosecutor Investigation of Israel’s Actions in Palestine

This FOIA request seeks all internal communications of the Biden administration related to the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into crimes committed by the Israeli government during...

Updated: August 15, 2024

R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Aimee Stephens (Amicus)

The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Transgender Law Center filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court on behalf of more than 45 non-profit and grassroots organizations...

Updated: June 15, 2020

FOIA Regarding Israel's Compliance with Visa Waiver Program

Under the United States’ Visa Waiver Program, nationals from certain designated countries can enter the U.S. as temporary visitors without first obtaining a visa. In order for a country to qualify...

Updated: February 23, 2024

Bedi v. U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce

As part of its widespread investigation of universities in response to Palestine solidarity organizing, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to Northwestern University on...

Updated: April 11, 2025

Doğan v. Barak (Amicus)

CCR submitted an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the parents of Furkan Doğan , who was killed in the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla . The flotilla, which carried more than 700...

Updated: September 5, 2019

Doe v. Hood

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

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