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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Tariq Ba Odah is a Yemeni-national who has been detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba since February 2002. He is now 34 years old and has spent close to one-third of his life in arbitrary…
Bandele v. City of New York is a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of three members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement who were arrested while peacefully and lawfully videotaping NYPD officers.
Bari v. Held is a lawsuit that charged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Oakland Police Department with violating Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney’s Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizures and…
Mohammed Sulaymon Barre is a Somali citizen who was imprisoned in Guantánamo for nearly eight years. He held official refugee status granted by the United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and lived and worked freely…
Baruch College Black and Hispanic Alumni Association v. Baruch College is a case that sought to defend the rights of a group of Black and Latino alumni to set up their own alumni association at…
Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit filed against retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon that charges him…
Bick v. Mitchell is a lawsuit filed on behalf of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Women Strike for Peace and the Communist Party, among others, asking…
Blum v. Holder is a federal lawsuit challenging the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) as an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. The plaintiffs are five longtime animal rights activists whose advocacy work has been chilled…
On June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court held in Rasul v. Bush, that the nearly-600 men imprisoned by the U.S. government in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had a right of access to the federal courts, via…
Bowoto v. Chevron is a class action lawsuit charging Chevron/Texaco Corporation with gross violations of human rights including extrajudicial killing; crimes against humanity; and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment in the Niger Delta region. It…
Briggs v. Goodwin is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) led a team of lawyers in successfully defending leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, known as the “Gainesville Eight,”…
Brown v. City of Chattanooga is one of CCR’s municipal at-large cases, which consist of several cases filed on behalf of voters of color to challenge the at-large electoral system for violating the Voting Rights…
On June 22, 2011 CCR, The Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, Goodman & Hurwitz, The Sanders Law Firm, and Miller Cohen PLC filed a case on behalf of 28 Michigan residents challenging the…
Bruno v. McGuire is a lawsuit that challenged the New York City Police Department’s policy of refusing to arrest men who beat their wives. It also charged court clerks and counselors with refusing to allow…
Burns v. City of Detroit is a civil rights case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) that alleged sexual harassment and discrimination by the Detroit Police Department.
Switzerland On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against former president George W. Bush in Geneva, who was due to speak at an event there on February 12th. On the eve of the…
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).
Campaign to Save Our Hospitals v. Giuliani is a lawsuit brought on behalf of the public interest organization Campaign to Save Our Hospitals, charging New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with violating the New York…
CCR joined as an amicus in urging the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to determine that the longstanding failure to investigate, prosecute, or prevent the crimes in this case (three in a series of hundreds…
Casas-Castrillon v. Lockyer is one of several cases in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has signed on as amicus curiae to support non-citizens seeking relief from immigration detention. It involves a challenge to…
On February 22, 2011, CCR and the Columbia Law School Environmental Law Clinic wrote a letter of advisement to the United Nations Independent Expert on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Related to Access to…
On August 3, 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to challenge the legality…
On May 31, 2010, a six-boat flotilla, carrying more than 700 civilians from almost 40 countries seeking to bring humanitarian and rebuilding supplies to the Gaza Strip as well as to break the Israeli blockade…
CCR v. Obama is a lawsuit originally filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against President George W. Bush, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and the heads of the other major…
Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld, et al. and Allaithi v. Rumsfeld, et al. are civil cases seeking compensatory damages and declaratory relief for six former Guantánamo detainees.
