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.

Al Shimari, et al. v. CACI

A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractor under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.

Updated: November 28, 2023

Afghan Sites FOIA Litigation

Amidst the completion of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country, over 124,000 Afghan civilians were evacuated. Those evacuated were sent to several processing...

Updated: August 30, 2023

White Hat v. Landry

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: August 24, 2023

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: August 7, 2023

The Descendants Project v. St. John the Baptist Parish

On November 9, 2021, on behalf of The Descendants Project, an organization founded to advocate for descendants of people once enslaved in Louisiana’s river parishes, the Center for Constitutional...

Updated: August 4, 2023

Brownsville Texas / SpaceX Open Records Requests

In August 2022, local activists submitted multiple requests for information on possible collusion between government officials and Elon Musk’s tech giant SpaceX in the company’s expansion in South...

Updated: May 10, 2023

Opposition to Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Eminent Domain Lawsuit

A challenge on behalf of landowners in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company’s (BBP) eminent domain lawsuit.

Updated: March 7, 2023

RISE St. James - The Fight to Protect Burial Sites of Enslaved People

RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots organization formed to advocate for racial and environmental justice in St. James, Louisiana, learned in November 2019 that graves of people enslaved on...

Updated: March 7, 2023

Estate of Arturo Giron Alvarez, et al. v. The Johns Hopkins University, et al.

Amicus brief in case of Guatemalans subjected to non-consensual medical experiments between 1945 and 1956.

Updated: November 7, 2022

FOIA for Info on Thomson Reuters, RELX Group Contracts with ICE

Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ) and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...

Updated: July 13, 2022

MUHURI FOIA Request

On behalf of Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), the Center for Constitutional Rights and the NYU School of Law's Global Justice Clinic filed a FOIA request to the CIA, DOD, and other federal agencies...

Updated: July 13, 2022

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

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

U.S.A. v. Reznicek (Amicus)

In June 2021, due to a "terrorism enhancement" that the judge imposed at the prosecution's request, Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Jessica pleaded guilty to a single...

Updated: November 15, 2021

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

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