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.

National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request

A FOIA request for documents relating to the NSEERS registration program.

Updated: August 18, 2017

Mohamed Osman Mohamud v. United States (Amicus)

The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to take on the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Mohamud v. United States is one of the first...

Updated: August 16, 2017

Ag-gag litigation (Amicus)

Amicus briefs supporting animal rights and other activists' challenges to state “ag-gag” laws.

Updated: July 10, 2017

Duran v. Trump

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

Updated: May 5, 2017

Khan v. Obama / Khan v. Gates / United States v. Khan

CCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan.

Updated: March 2, 2017

Zogorski v. Tennessee

The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of Edmund Zagorski, a man imprisoned on death row in Tennessee. CCR argued that the death...

Updated: January 23, 2017

Barhoumi v. Obama

Representing an Algerian citizen held at Guantánamo since 2002

Updated: January 20, 2017

al Qahtani v. Obama

A habeas corpus petition on behalf of the only Guantánamo detainee who the government has openly admitted was tortured.

Updated: December 1, 2016

Immigrant Defense Project, et al. v. ICE, et al.

Freedom of Information Request with DHS and ICE seeking information related to ICE’s home raids policies and arrest data in general as well as the particulars of a December 2011 ICE warrantless home...

Updated: September 23, 2016

United States of America and Vulcan Society, Inc. v. City of New York

A federal class action lawsuit on behalf of the Vulcan Society and individual firefighters and firefighter applicants charging the New York City Fire Department with racially discriminatory hiring...

Updated: June 15, 2016

State of Missouri v. Michael L. Johnson (Amicus)

CCR has joined the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) , a national leader on HIV policy development, along with 21 national and state organizations, in an amicus brief on behalf of Michael Johnson...

Updated: August 1, 2016

Houser v. Blank

In 2010, the U.S. Bureau of the Census hired over a million temporary employees to conduct census surveys and serve in clerical positions. The Bureau ran the names of all applicants through the FBI...

Updated: April 20, 2016

Gulino v. The Board of Education of the City of New York and the New York State Education Department

A class action lawsuit challenging the racially discriminatory impact of several standardized tests New York City used in a re-certification process for city public school teachers

Updated: January 20, 2016

Doe v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Amicus)

ATS case bringing claims that U.S. technology company Cisco Systems, Inc. aided and abetted serious human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China

Updated: January 13, 2016

In re South African Apartheid Litigation (Amicus)

Amicus briefs in a case seeking civil liability from multinational corporations for their role aiding and abetting the South African apartheid regime.

Updated: September 16, 2015

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