Corrie v. Caterpillar was a federal lawsuit filed against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. on behalf of the parents of Rachel Corrie and four Palestinian families whose relatives were killed or...
Updated: November 19, 2018
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
Sharqawi Al Hajj is a 43-year-old Yemeni citizen who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2004 and in government custody since 2002. Prior to his transfer to Guantánamo, Al Hajj was...
Updated: December 6, 2018
Charging former Paraguayan official Americo Peña-Irala with the wrongful death of Joelito Filártiga. The suit pioneered the application of a previously little-used 1789 federal statute, the Alien...
Updated: January 3, 2019
A challenge to corporate impunity for torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: February 5, 2019
Federal lawsuit challenging government-ordered extrajudicial killings in Bolivia
Updated: February 27, 2019
Action seeking accountability for U.S. torture brought in France under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: March 20, 2019
Alobahy v. Trump is a federal lawsuit on behalf of three Yemeni-Americans against President Trump, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security for the unlawful revocation of...
Updated: April 15, 2019
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: April 15, 2019
Freedom of Information Act Requests to various U.S. government agencies regarding the 2009 military coup in Honduras.
Updated: April 15, 2019
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