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.

Public Records Request in Support of Professor Raz Segal

The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a public records request seeking information from the University of Minnesota related to its withdrawal of a job offer to Israeli-American Jewish...

Updated: August 15, 2024

Al Hela v. Biden (amicus)

Al Hela poses the same central question posed by The Center for Constitutional Rights' Ali appeal : whether the Constitution’s Due Process Clause extends to individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay. Mr...

Updated: October 1, 2021

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

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: July 9, 2025

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

Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security (Amicus)

Plaintiff Rahinah Ibrahim is a Muslim woman and a citizen of Malaysia who was a doctoral student at Stanford University writing her thesis on affordable housing. She has neither a criminal record nor...

Updated: July 10, 2012

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

FBI v. Fazaga (amicus)

Yassir Fazaga, a Black Muslim imam who immigrated to the United States from Eritrea, and his congregants were targeted by the FBI, under a dragnet surveillance operation that, by the Bureau’s own...

Updated: September 28, 2021

Mahmoud Khalil Federal Tort Claims Act Complaint

The Center for Constitional Rights seeks damages from the United States government pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil. The adminstrative claim describes...

Updated: July 10, 2025

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