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.

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

AOL v. Mayorkas II

This case challenges the latest iteration of the government's policy and practice of turning back vulnerable asylum seekers at the Southern border. It follows after the Center for Constitutional...

Updated: October 2, 2024

J.K.A. and T.B.F. v. U.S.A.

This case is filed on behalf of two Cameroonian men abused by U.S. immigration officials while engaging in a hunger strike to protest their detention conditions and during their deportations. Both...

Updated: November 15, 2024

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

Espinoza Escalona v. Noem

Espinoza Escalona v. Noem is a case seeking to block the removal to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station of ten noncitizen men currently in immigration detention in the United States who are nationals of...

Updated: March 13, 2025

Gutierrez v. Noem

Gutierrez v. Noem is a case filed by two men who are nationals of Nicaragua currently in immigration detention at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, on behalf of themselves and a similarly situated...

Updated: September 2, 2025

Al Otro Lado v. Trump (AOL III)

“AOL III” is the latest challenge to the U.S. government’s policy of denying access to the asylum process to migrants at the Southern border. It follows our landmark lawsuit Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas...

Updated: June 25, 2025

Bowman v. Streeval, et al

Alma Bella Bowman has lived in Macon, Georgia for nearly 50 years. She was born in the Philippines to a Filipina mother and a U.S. citizen father serving in the U.S. Navy when he met Alma’s mother...

Updated: August 1, 2025

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: September 24, 2025

Khan Suri v. Trump

Dr. Badar Khan Suri is a visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, and an Indian national. He is married to a United States citizen of Palestinian origin whose family is from...

Updated: September 27, 2025

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