Litigation
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Manuel Esteban Paez Teran v. United States: Justice for murder of environmental activist
This case seeks reparative justice for the extrajudicial killing of Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez Terán, the first environmental activist in modern U.S. history to have been shot and killed by police during a protest.
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Mike Brown v. United States: Seeking justice for lethal police violence
This case seeks justice for the extrajudicial killing of Mike Brown and violations of the human rights of Mike and his mother Lezley McSpadden under the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.
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Justice for Migrant Families v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Exposing abuse at the Buffalo Federal Processing Center
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks to expose ongoing denial of medical treatment and abuse by guards at a New York immigration detention center.
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K.N.N. et al v. United States of America: Stopping Torture on Deportation Flights
This case challenges the abusive use of a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights.
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J.K.A. v. United States of America: Stopping retaliation for protesting detention center abuses
This case seeks accountability for torture and other cruel and degrading treatment the government inflicted on individuals it held in immigration detention in Louisiana and during and after their deportation flights to Cameroon.
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Cenesca v. Feeley: Fighting prolonged solitary confinement in immigration detention
This case challenges the U.S. government’s practice of coercing Black immigrants into accepting deportation by locking them in indefinite immigration detention and prolonged solitary confinement.
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Rekia Boyd v. United States: Fighting impunity for police killings
This case seeks accountability through international human rights law for the extrajudicial killing of Rekia Boyd by a Chicago police officer.
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Indigenous women victims of sexual violence, tortured by Mexican Army
When Mexico’s war on drugs turns on its most vulnerable: sexual violence perpetrated by members of the Mexican army against a 73-year-old Indigenous woman.
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Justice Achieved in Cuban Dissident’s Death
Oswaldo Payá’s death in a suspicious car crash highlights the dangers for human rights defenders in Cuba.
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Hodge v. Brophy: Fighting indefinite civil detention
This case seeks to affirm immigrants’ rights to U.S. constitutional protections against unjustly prolonged civil detention.
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Haitian Bridge Alliance v. DHS: Exposing anti-Black discrimination at the border
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks documents explaining why the US engaged military-grade force for the mass detention and expulsion of more than 15,000 people at the southern border in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021. The majority of those expelled were Haitian and other Black immigrants.
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Davis v. Garland: Fighting indefinite civil detention
This case seeks to affirm immigrants’ rights to U.S. constitutional protections against unjustly prolonged civil detention.
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