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: September 23, 2024
Four Venezuelan migrants filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on September 13, 2024, challenging the legality of their indefinite detention at the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral...
Updated: September 16, 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
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
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
In 2003, in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas , the United States Supreme Court declared that state statutes that criminalize sodomy are unconstitutional. In its sweeping decision, the Supreme...
Updated: April 13, 2023
CCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan.
Updated: February 2, 2023
For many years, St. Louis and surrounding Missouri counties have permitted police officers to issue the equivalent of a statewide arrest warrant into an electronic database, designating an individual...
Updated: December 8, 2022
A habeas corpus case on behalf of Guled Hassan Duran, a native of Somalia.
Updated: November 7, 2022
Scott v. PA Board of Probation and Parole is a lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on behalf of six individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (DBI), also known...
Updated: April 13, 2022
Challenges the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans on the basis of their Muslim identity
Updated: March 18, 2022
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
Sharqawi Al Hajj is a 47-year-old citizen of Yemen who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2004, after over two years in CIA sites. He faces the prospect of a death sentence in...
Updated: August 31, 2021
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