Litigation
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Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared to El Salvadoran Mega-Prison
Four groups, including RFK Human Rights, filed a request seeking precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against El Salvador for the unlawful detention of hundreds of individuals forcibly and illegally transferred from the United States in recent months.
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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Exposing coercion of unaccompanied children
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks to expose the U.S. government’s practice of depriving unaccompanied immigrant children of legal protections from deportation and imprisonment in adult detention centers by destroying their birth certificates, coercing false confessions of adulthood, and falsifying age records through racially biased, pseudo-scientific forensic tests.
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Monroe v. United States: Dismantling barriers to accountability for police brutality
This case seeks to protect the human right to a remedy and reparation for survivors and victims of U.S. police brutality. It asks the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to instruct the United States to reform civil laws to ensure access to civil remedies for people subjected to police brutality.
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Ceesay v. Kurzdorfer: Defending Due Process at ICE Check-ins
This case challenges the government’s practice of arbitrarily arresting people without notice at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) check-ins after years of reporting without incident under an order of supervision.
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Fulton v. Noem: Ensuring access to medical care upon release from ICE detention
This case challenges the government’s refusal to provide discharge planning to a man scheduled for release from immigration detention who is almost certain to die unless provided dialysis.
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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Ensuring oversight of immigration enforcement
This case challenges the executive branch’s sudden closure of three oversight offices within the Department of Homeland Security that Congress mandated be created, funded, and staffed in order to safeguard human rights and protect the public from government wrongdoing.
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Prisoners’ Legal Services v. Department of Homeland Security: Protecting the First Amendment and Attorney-Client Privilege in ICE Detention
Case Citation Prisoners’ Legal Services et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, 1:25-cv-01965 (S.D.N.Y. filed Mar. 10, 2025) Tags Share Case Partners
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Barnes v. Felix: Limiting Deadly Police Force
Our amicus brief asks the Supreme Court to recognize that U.S. law, like international human rights law, limits police use of lethal force to situations where it is both necessary and proportionate to a threat.
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Franklin v. New York: Protecting the Integrity of Bail
Case Citation Frankin v. New York, 604 U. S. __ (2025) (certiorari denied) Tags Share Case Partners
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Nersisian v Harper: Fighting disability discrimination in immigration detention
This case challenges the arbitrary and abusive immigration detention of a 51-year-old woman with severe disabilities.
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