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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (amicus)
Hamdan filed his petition for habeas corpus, claiming that the military commission lacked authority to try him since there was no congressional act that authorized them. Further, Hamdan's...
Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) Litigation
Successful challenges to Louisiana's requirement that people convicted of Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) register as sex offenders.
Goodman, et al. v. St. Paul, et al.
A lawsuit brought on behalf of three journalists against the City of St. Paul, the City of Minneapolis, Ramsey County, and multiple law enforcement officers to challenge the targeting by law...
Kunstler v. City of New York
Kunstler v. City of New York was a multi-plaintiff federal lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the New York Police Department (NYPD) on behalf of protesters who were...
Rasul v. Rumsfeld
A case brought by four former Guantanamo prisoners against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture.
Legal Support to the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York
CCR is providing legal support and criminal defense to the protesters who engaged in civil disobedience (CD) as part of the New Sanctuary Movement's (NSM) on-going campaign around immigrant...
United States v. Camilo E. Mejia-Castillo
Camilo E. Mejia is a former staff sergeant with the Florida National Guard who, in 2004, after over eight years of military service and a five-month tour in ar-Ramadi in southern Iraq, became the...
State of California v. Kevin Olliff
Kevin Olliff is an animal rights activist who was arrested April 18, 2009 on three year-old protest charges and, soon after, had 10 felony counts added to his charges: multiple counts of: stalking,...
Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz
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...
Boumediene v. Bush / Al Odah v. United States
The second landmark Supreme Court case establishing the rights of the men detained at Guantanamo.
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