Cases

State of North Carolina v. Joan Little

State of North Carolina v. Joan Little is a 1975 case for which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) provided assistance to the defense. Joan Little was a prisoner who killed her white jailer...
Updated: October 9, 2007

Wallace v. Kern

Wallace v. Kern is a class action lawsuit filed by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of seven indigent inmates awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention. These men had filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007

Byrd v. Goord

Byrd v. Goord is a civil rights case that challenged the collect-call only telephone service for prison inmates operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS). On March 21...
Updated: October 20, 2007

Jackson v. Allain

Jackson v. Allain is a class action lawsuit that challenged Mississippi electoral law on the basis of racial discrimination. In March 1984, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal...
Updated: October 22, 2007

Martha Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America

Martha Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America is a civil rights case which challenged the monopolies that phone companies and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) maintain in the prison...
Updated: October 22, 2007

Al-Jundi v. Estate of Oswald

Al-Jundi v. Estate of Oswald is a $2.8 billion civil damages suit filed in 1974 by survivors of what came to be known as the Attica Uprising. They first sued various New York State officials,...
Updated: March 31, 2008

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (amicus)

Hamdan filed his petition for habeas corpus, claiming that the military commission lacked authority to try him since there was no congressional act that authorized them. Further, Hamdan’s...
Updated: January 17, 2013

Rasul v. Bush

CCR's first landmark Supreme Court case establishing the rights of the Guantanamo detainees.
Updated: July 3, 2014

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