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.

Accountability for U.S. Torture: Canada

Action brought in Canada under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

Updated: November 12, 2019

Accountability for U.S. Torture: Switzerland

Action brought in Switzerland under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

Updated: November 12, 2019

United States v. Ahmed Abu Ali

Ahmed Abu Ali is a 37-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: October 3, 2019

Estate of Arturo Giron Alvarez, et al. v. The Johns Hopkins University, et al.

Amicus brief in case of Guatemalans subjected to non-consensual medical experiments between 1945 and 1956.

Updated: September 23, 2019

Dobashi v. Trump

A federal lawsuit on behalf of 13 Yemeni-Americans for the unlawful revocation of their family members’ previously approved visas due to the Muslim Ban.

Updated: September 6, 2019

Doğan v. Barak (Amicus)

CCR submitted an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the parents of Furkan Doğan , who was killed in the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla . The flotilla, which carried more than 700...

Updated: September 5, 2019

Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction, et al. (Amicus)

The Center for Constitutional Rights and ten other amici filed a brief of amicus curiae in support of appellee Adree Edmo. The brief argues that the appellate court should uphold the lower court's...

Updated: September 5, 2019

Turkmen v. Ashcroft

A class action lawsuit challenging the 9/11 immigration detentions.

Updated: May 20, 2019

Muslim Ban Waiver FOIA

CCR and Muslim Advocates filed this Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request on January 23, 2018 to obtain documents that would provide much-needed clarity on the process to obtain a waiver to the...

Updated: April 14, 2019

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: April 15, 2019

Honduras: True Commission and CCR Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests

Freedom of Information Act Requests to various U.S. government agencies regarding the 2009 military coup in Honduras.

Updated: April 15, 2019

Ms. Q. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Ms. Q. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) is a lawsuit on behalf of an asylum seeker from El Salvador and her four-year old child, J. They have been unlawfully separated from each...

Updated: December 3, 2018

SNAP v. the Pope, et al.

Ongoing revelations of pervasive and serious sexual violence against children and vulnerable adults by priests and others associated with the Catholic Church in different parts of the world have...

Updated: August 20, 2018

Hassan v. City of New York

Challenges the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans on the basis of their Muslim identity

Updated: April 5, 2018

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

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