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
CCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan.
Updated: October 31, 2021
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: October 1, 2021
Between April and May 2021, Freedom for Immigrants’ National Immigration Detention Hotline received numerous complaints of incidents of abuse from immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs...
Updated: September 15, 2021
A challenge to corporate impunity under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: September 11, 2021
A habeas corpus case on behalf of Guled Hassan Duran, a native of Somalia.
Updated: September 8, 2021
Ahmed Abu Ali is a 40-year-old American citizen of Jordanian origin currently serving a sentence of life without parole in federal prison following a 2005 conviction for material support and related...
Updated: August 31, 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
Abu Zubaydah is a victim of some of the most egregious torture perpetrated against detainees in the post-9/11 era. Held in CIA prisons located in various third countries from 2002 to 2006, he was the...
Updated: August 23, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Doe, et al. v. Nestlé USA, Inc . and the companion case Doe, et al. v. Cargill, Inc. to decide the question of whether U.S. corporations can be held liable under...
Updated: June 17, 2021
CCR and Palestine Legal are advocating on behalf of Fordham students who were denied permission to start Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the university and then disciplined for protesting...
Updated: June 10, 2021
A challenge on behalf of landowners in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company’s (BBP) eminent domain lawsuit.
Updated: May 13, 2021
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: May 12, 2021
Belton v. Gautreaux is a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of people imprisoned at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana. The lawsuit and an accompanying motion for a temporary...
Updated: April 26, 2021
Federal lawsuit challenging government-ordered extrajudicial killings in Bolivia
Updated: April 6, 2021
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