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.

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

Migrant Justice v. Nielsen

Lawsuit on behalf of Vermont-based Migrant Justice against ICE, DHS, and the Vermont DMV.

Updated: March 4, 2021

Tanvir v. Tanzin (formerly Tanvir v. Holder and Tanvir v. Lynch)

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

al-Majalah Freedom of Information Act Request

A FOIA request for information about a U.S. airstrike on a rural community in southwestern Yemen, in the al-Majalah region, on December 17, 2009.

Updated: April 17, 2012

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

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

Arizona v. Garland

Home is Here NOLA, Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy, and Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, three local immigrant rights organizations, are challenging subpoenas from Louisiana...

Updated: July 28, 2023

No Bayou Bridge Pipeline - Public Records Request to Department of Environmental Quality

On behalf of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a public records request with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) seeking records related to...

Updated: December 3, 2019