The Supreme Court will hear CCR's case Al Odah v. U.S. this term.
Between current and past cases we have approximately 150 case descriptions available here. This list can be ordered by date or name, and filtered by the issues to which they relate.
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Mr. Abdel-Muhti was a stateless Palestinian born in the Ramallah district of the West Bank in August 1947. Because he left the West Bank before the Israeli takeover in 1967, he could not receive travel…
In April 1999, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a case on behalf of 40 plaintiffs charging the Metal Lathers Local 46 Union with discrimination that violated Title VII and the Civil Rights Acts…
In Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz, attorneys at CCR brought the first challenge to the constitutionality of abortion statutes in which women were the plaintiffs and the issues raised were those of a woman’s right to abortion…
Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater USA, et al. was filed against Blackwater USA, the private military contractor whose heavily armed personnel opened fire on innocent Iraqi civilians in Nisoor Square in…
In AFSC v. Brady, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) along with other progressive legal groups sued to eliminate U.S. government restrictions against group travel to Vietnam and Cambodia.
Subsequent to Rasul, intervening events with relevance to the question of the rights of Guantánamo detainees included the establishment of Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) in 2004 and the enactment of legislation purportedly stripping classes…
Mohammed Al Qahtani is a Saudi Arabian citizen who was taken into U.S. custody in December 2001 and transferred a few months later to Guantánamo. While at Guantánamo, Mr. Al Qahtani was subjected to aggressive…
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,…
Naji Almontaser, who is Muslim, worked at the Hilton Hotel for many years and alleged that he was constantly denied rightful promotional opportunities. He and other Muslims working at the Hilton charged that they were…
In the 1980s, approximately 500,000 Salvadorans and Guatemalans fled political repression and violence condoned by their governments and applied for refugee status in the U.S.—the vast majority were denied.
On April 4, 2000, CCR filed a civil rights suit on behalf of Reverend Stephen Anderson in Chicago federal court against Matthew Hale, the leader of the World Church of the Creator, and the estate…
Arar v. Ashcroft is a lawsuit brought against the former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and then Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, as well as numerous U.S. immigration officials. It charges…
On June 29, 1999, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois which challenged the State of Illinois’ practice of creating…
Bandele v. City of New York is a federal civil rights lawsuit brought against the City of New York and three NYPD officers. It charges that the defendants, NYPD Officer Thomas Stevens and two other…
Bari v. Held is a lawsuit that charged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), former FBI agent-in-charge Richard Held, and the Oakland Police Department with violating Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney’s First Amendment freedoms and…
Barre v. Gates is a Detainee Treatment Act (DTA) petition filed on behalf of Somali detainee Mohammed Sulaymon Barre.
Baruch College is a branch of the City University of New York (CUNY) that specializes in preparing students for careers in business. In 1982, a group of Black and Latino alumni sought official recognition for…
Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit brought against the former Head of the IDF Army Intelligence, Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya’alon (ret.), under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act…
Bick v. Mitchell is a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Women Strike for Peace…
The plaintiffs – unarmed protestors and innocent citizens of the Niger Delta region of Niger – seek compensation injunctive and other relief under the federal Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) which allows suits in U.S…
In 1974, CCR filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the “Gainesville Eight,” members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). Six of the plaintiffs had been acquitted of charges of conspiring to disrupt the…
The municipal at-large cases consist of several cases the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed on behalf of voters of color throughout the country challenging the at-large electoral system. The lawsuit alleged that the system…
Bruno v. McGuire is a lawsuit the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed together with lawyers from MFY Legal Services, Inc., the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Division, and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation B that challenged…
On October 10, 1995, Lynette Burns filed suit in Wayne County Circuit Court alleging sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of the Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, as well as other related causes.
On March 21, 2000, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a civil rights action on behalf of the families, friends, ministers, counselors, and lawyers of inmates confined in the 70 correctional facilities operated by…
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