Litigation
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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 immigration detention
Officials at New York’s Buffalo Federal Detention Facility regularly open, copy, and retain privileged legal documents transmitted to detained people, including documents given in-person by attorneys meeting with clients. This practice chills detained people’ speech, encouraging impunity for ongoing abuses at the detention center.
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Kakwenza Rukirabashaija v. Uganda: Novelist Arrested and Tortured for His Writing
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is a renowned novelist from Uganda who was arbitrarily arrested and detained on three occasions for his writings criticizing Ugandan government officials. While in detention, he was repeatedly tortured by state security forces.
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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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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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Washington v. Smith: Standing up to stop-and-frisk policing
This case challenges biased policing practices of Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, including the humiliating practice of unnecessary, suspicion-less and nonconsensual frisks that Black men are subjected to in intimidating and unjustified traffic stops.
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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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