Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James brought this action against St. James Parish for its decades of environmental racism and discriminatory siting of industrial...
Updated: July 3, 2024
A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractors under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: July 3, 2024
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
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: June 21, 2024
In the summer of 2012, the Buffalo Police Department created a "Strike Force" Unit to aggressively patrol and conduct vehicle checkpoints in "high crime" areas of the city. While purportedly set up...
Updated: May 30, 2024
A federal class action lawsuit against the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop and frisks.
Updated: May 21, 2024
In July 2020, ICE announced it would be holding a "Citizens Academy" in Chicago, Illinois where civilian invitees would be trained in various enforcement techniques used by the law enforcement agency...
Updated: May 14, 2024
Bronner v. Duggan is a case filed by four American Studies Association (ASA) members against the ASA and ten individuals following the organization's passage of a resolution to endorse and honor the...
Updated: May 8, 2024
In Alabama’s complex history, the remnants of slavery in the state’s prison system cast a long shadow. Following the legal abolition of slavery in Alabama, through the ratification of the Thirteenth...
Updated: May 1, 2024
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: April 29, 2024
For decades, residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have experienced threats to their health and wellbeing from an outdated, failing public water system. For the past three years, this predominantly...
Updated: March 20, 2024
The Center Constitutional Rights represents Inclusive Louisiana and Mount Triumph Baptist Church in their appeal of the local government's approval of a request by Koch Methanol to expand its...
Updated: March 19, 2024
Cameroon is in the midst of an intense civil war that has displaced 700,000 people and left 3.9 million in need of humanitarian support. Cameroonian security forces have been responsible for...
Updated: March 18, 2024
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: March 4, 2024
Amicus briefs in a case seeking civil liability from multinational corporations for their role aiding and abetting the South African apartheid regime.
Updated: February 26, 2024
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