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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In early 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed two habeas corpus petitions, Rasul v. Bush and Habib v. Bush, challenging the U.S. government's practice of holding foreign nationals captured in connection with its…
Rasul v. Rumsfeld is a lawsuit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of four former detainees seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture while detained at Guantánamo.
Reagan v. Wald is a 1985 case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with Leonard Boudin and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC), sought to enjoin restrictions on travel to Cuba…
Republic of the Philippines v. Marcos is a 1986 case which recovered New York real estate bought with illicit funds by the Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
This Petition for Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s 8-6 en banc decision that Mr. Cardenas Abreu’s pending criminal appeal is a…
Salas v. United States is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) brought charges against the United States for the 1989 illegal invasion of Panama and subsequent human rights violations. The case…
Saleh v. Titan is a federal lawsuit brought by more than 250 Iraqi plaintiffs against private contractors CACI International Incorporated and Titan Corporation (now L-3 Services). It charges the companies with torture and other heinous and illegal acts…
Sanchez v. Reagan is a 1984 case which challenged U.S. officials’ support for murder, rape, and other torture in Nicaragua.
This case, Seeds of Peace v. City of Pittsburgh, USDC W.D. PA, was filed on behalf of activists harassed by the police in the days before the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. It is related to the Codepink Pittsburgh Women for…
Shenandoah, et al. v. Halbritter is a civil rights case that was filed on behalf of the Oneida Nation of New York against the U.S. Department of the Interior, charging that the government violated the…
Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain is a lawsuit that charged Francisco Sosa with wrongfully detaining Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus curiae brief in support of Dr. Alvarez-Machain.
Soto v. Romero-Barcelo was a case which brought suit to uncover FBI involvement in the killing of young pro-independence activists at Cerro Maravilla, Puerto Rico. The case led to substantial awards to plaintiffs and televised…
In February, 2004, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) joined an amicus brief in Soubirous v. Riverside, urging the California court to investigate questions of the integrity of electronic voting in Riverside County, California.
Stamler v. Willis is a civil action in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the constitutionality of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the subpoenas it issued.
CCR filed an amicus brief to the Louisiana Supreme Court in State of Lousiana v. Wallace, 200-KK-1621. The amicus was the result of a campaign and survey coordinated by CCR to observe every New Orleans…
State of New York v. Danny White is a lawsuit challenging New York State’s attempts to evict Mohawk Native Americans from their land and U.S. courts’ jurisdiction over Native American land claims.
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 after…
State of Washington v. Wanrow is a lawsuit from the 1970’s that defended a woman’s right to self-defense against harm to herself or her child.
StreetWatch v. National Railroad Passenger Corp. is a case which charged Amtrak police with illegally ejecting, harassing, and arresting homeless people.
Taylor v. Hayes is a civil case that went up to the Supreme Court in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) contested Kentucky attorney Dan Taylor’s four-and-a half-year jail sentence for contempt of court.
The Nation Magazine v. Department of Defense is a suit that the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) brought against the U.S. government for the press restrictions it enforced during the first Gulf War.
The Nation v. Haig was a case which defended the right of Americans to receive Cuban publications.
Thornton v. City of Greenville is a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against Greenville, Mississippi that contested the discriminatory election districts of the 1980’s.
ACLU, CCR, et al. v. Dept. of Defense et al. is a suit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights together with the American Civil Liberties Union, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense,…
CCR represents several feminist activists from the “Morning-After Pill Conspiracy” in a lawsuit to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s failure to approve the Morning-After Pill (also known as “emergency contraception” or “Plan B”) with…
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