U.S. Advocacy and Litigation
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Hodge v. Brophy: Fighting indefinite civil detention
Second Circuit reverses lower court after holding that due process bars prolonged immigration detention without a bond hearing.
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Buffalo Federal Detention Facility abuses people for exercising First Amendment rights: complaint to the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
On June 7, 2024, officers at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility (BFDF) retaliated against approximately 40 detained engaged in their First Amendment-protected right to peacefully hunger strike. Detained people were protesting the discontinuance of free phone calls to family and the BFDF policy of indiscriminately locking people in cells for approximately 18 hours per day.
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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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ACLU represents Louisiana man seeking justice after violent encounter with LSP
Tags Share The ACLU of Louisiana and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a writ application to appeal a misdemeanor criminal conviction on behalf of Anthony Monroe, a Louisiana man who was beaten by Louisiana State Police during a traffic stop and then convicted at a bench trial of resisting arrest. Mr. Monroe is now
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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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US violates human rights of Black immigrants: shadow report to UN Human Rights Committee for the fifth periodic review of the US under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Receiving Body United Nations Human Rights Committee Report Type Shadow report for the fifth periodic review of the United States under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Tags Partners
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Justice for Migrant Families v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Exposing abuse at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility
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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J.K.A. v. United States of America: Stopping retaliation for protesting detention center abuses
This case seeks accountability for torture and cruel and degrading treatment inflicted on Cameroonian men in immigration detention in Louisiana and on deportation flights.
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Cenesca v. Feeley: Fighting prolonged solitary confinement in immigration detention
Federal court finds due process violated by prolonged immigration detention with repeated solitary confinement.
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Mike Brown v. United States: Seeking justice for lethal police violence
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights grants first public hearing on extrajudicial killing of Mike Brown.
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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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