Cases

al-Majalah Freedom of Information Act Request

A FOIA request for information about a U.S. airstrike on a rural community in southwestern Yemen, in the al-Majalah region, on December 17, 2009.

Updated: April 17, 2012

Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security (Amicus)

Plaintiff Rahinah Ibrahim is a Muslim woman and a citizen of Malaysia who was a doctoral student at Stanford University writing her thesis on affordable housing. She has neither a criminal record nor...

Updated: July 10, 2012

CCR and the ACLU v. OFAC & Al-Aulaqi v. Obama

Challenging the government's decision authorizing the CIA and JSOC to target and kill Anwar Al-Aulaqi in Yemen.

Updated: August 30, 2021

Movsesian, et al. v. Victoria Versicherung AG, et al. (amicus)

Heirs of victims of the Armenian genocide sue German corporations for unpaid insurance benefits.

Updated: September 24, 2012

Presbyterian Church of Sudan et al v. Talisman Energy, Inc. (Amicus Brief)

Talisman Energy, Inc. aided and abetted the Sudanese Government in a campaign of genocide and torture against non-Muslim African people in Southern Sudan in order to expand their oil exploration in...

Updated: October 2, 2012

Al-Quraishi, et al. v. Nakhla and L-3 Services

Al Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services challenged corporate impunity for torture and other war crimes at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq.

Updated: September 8, 2021

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (Amicus)

In two amicus briefs to the Supreme Court in 2011 and 2012, CCR argues that, reflecting general principles of international law, corporations can be held liable in U.S. courts for human rights...

Updated: March 29, 2018

National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) v. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE)

National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) was a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit that forced the U.S. government to release...

Updated: July 13, 2022

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

Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta

A challenge to the U.S. drone killing of three U.S. citizens in Yemen.

Updated: August 30, 2021

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Cases

al-Majalah Freedom of Information Act Request

Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security (Amicus)

CCR and the ACLU v. OFAC & Al-Aulaqi v. Obama

Movsesian, et al. v. Victoria Versicherung AG, et al. (amicus)

Presbyterian Church of Sudan et al v. Talisman Energy, Inc. (Amicus Brief)

Al-Quraishi, et al. v. Nakhla and L-3 Services

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (Amicus)

National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) v. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE)

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

Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta

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