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Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc., et al. is a civil case filed in the District Court for the District of Columbia against notorious private government contractor…
Mohammed al Qahtani is a Saudi citizen who has been detained in Guantánamo for over six years and who was the subject of the “First Special Interrogation Plan” at Guantanámo, a regime of “aggressive interrogation…
Al-Janabi v Stefanowicz, et al. is a lawsuit brought by an Iraqi civilian, Mr. Emad Al-Janabi, charging that private contractors CACI and L-3 Communications Titan Corporation (formerly Titan) as well as former CACI contractor Steven…
Estates of Albazzaz and Aziz v. Blackwater Lodge and Training, et al. is a civil lawsuit charging the private contractor Blackwater with war crimes for the death of two Iraqi men. Ali Hussamaldeen Albazzaz and…
Djamel Ameziane is an Algerian refugee who has been detained in Guantánamo Bay for more than six years. He has a pending habeas corpus petition, Ameziane v. Bush, in the D.C. District Court. He has…
Arar v. Ashcroft is a federal lawsuit challenging the rendition of a Canadian citizen to Syria, by the U.S. government, where he was tortured, forced to falsely confess, and released after one year without ever…
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.
Barre v. Gates is a Detainee Treatment Act (DTA) petition filed on behalf of a Somali detainee at Guantánamo who is an official UNHCR refugee. On August 1, 2007, CCR attorneys filed a Detainee Treatment Act…
Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit filed against retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon that charges him…
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.
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…
CCR v. Bush is a lawsuit 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 security…
Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld is a case seeking compensatory damages and declaratory relief for five former Guantánamo detainees.
Corrie v. Caterpillar is a federal lawsuit filed against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. on behalf of the parents of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American peace activist and student who was run over and killed by a…
Doe v. Constant is a civil case that was filed on behalf of three Haitian women who survived attempted killings, rapes, and other forms of torture at the hands of a Haitian paramilitary group led…
Jane Doe v. Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and Anwar Haddam is a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine individuals and the Rassemblement Algerien des Femmes Democrates (RAFD) against the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) of Algeria…
Doe v. Lumintang is a federal civil lawsuit against the ex-Vice Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army, Johny Lumintang filed on behalf of six East Timorese activists who survived the systematic campaign of violence…
Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al. is a federal class action lawsuit filed against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's…
The Center for Constitutional Rights, in collaboration with Amnesty International USA and Washington Square Legal Services, filed this lawsuit against the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of Homeland Security and…
This is a complaint filed in France by CCR and European human rights organizations against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for ordering and authorizing torture.
On November 14, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution that will look into the responsibility of…
Gulino v. The Board of Education of the City of New York and the New York State Education Department is a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of public school teachers of color who are…
Harrington v. MTA is a civil suit filed on behalf of Sikh subway motorman Kevin Harrington against the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), which attempted to prevent him from wearing his turban while on…
Humanitarian Law Project, et al. v. Mukasey (formerly Humanitarian Law Project, et al. v. Ashcroft and Humanitarian Law Project, et al. v. Gonzales, et al.)is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)…
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