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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.

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OLC Drug Cartel Memo FOIA

The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)’s guidance and other related...

Updated: June 24, 2026

ICE Habeas: Carmona Sanchez v. Vergara (Trans Woman Detained in Mississippi)

Sabrina Carmona Sanchez filed a habeas petition on February 2, 2026 challenging her unlawful detention in immigration custody at Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi — a privately...

Updated: June 2, 2026

Duran v. Trump

A habeas corpus case on behalf of Guled Hassan Duran, a native of Somalia.

Updated: May 6, 2026

Lavi, et al. v. UNRWA USA National Committee, Inc. and UNRWA

UNRWA USA National Committee, Inc. (UNRWA USA) is a U.S. nonprofit that supports the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) . Following the attacks of...

Updated: May 5, 2026

Estate of Sivan Sha'arabany, et al. v. UNRWA USA National Committee Inc. and UNRWA

UNRWA USA National Committee Inc. (UNRWA USA) is a U.S. nonprofit that supports the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Following the attacks of...

Updated: May 5, 2026

ICE Habeas: Palestinian Man Detained in Texas Despite Order of Withholding

Mohammad Abushanab is a 27-year-old Palestinian man who was born in Tulkarm in the West Bank and has spent nearly 16 months in immigration detention. He came to the United States in July of 2024 to...

Updated: April 14, 2026

Havlish v. Taliban / In re 9/11 Attacks / Owens v. Taliban - Frozen Afghan Assets (Amicus)

Following the United States government’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and the Taliban’s takeover of the country, the Biden Administration announced it would freeze over $7 billion held in the...

Updated: March 23, 2026

ICE Habeas: Filipina-American With Claim to U.S. Citizenship Detained in Georgia

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: November 26, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil FOIA Request

Center for Constitutional Rights lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 29, 2025, seeking records of the Trump administration’s communications with...

Updated: November 20, 2025

Alabama Immigration Enforcement Records Requests

The Center for Constitutional Rights in collaboration with the National Immigration Project, the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ), The Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama (HICA),...

Updated: November 20, 2025

ICE Habeas: Iranian Immigrant Detained in El Paso

Melika Olya, an Iranian native, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on March 13, 2025, challenging the legality of her indefinite detention at the El Paso Service Processing Center in Texas...

Updated: November 14, 2025

"Race Science" FOIA Litigation

Since at least 1998, U.S. immigration authorities have used dental radiographs in their process for determining the age of migrants even though the technique has been widely discredited. Further,...

Updated: November 14, 2025

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: November 4, 2025

ICE and CBP Surveillance Tech FOIA

In recent years and into the current Trump administration, both the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agencies have contracted with technology companies...

Updated: October 30, 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

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