Court Cases
Justice
DeWolfe v. Richmond (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center participated as a friend of the court in an important right to counsel case pending before Maryland’s highest court, which will determine how early in a criminal case counsel must be provided to a low-income person facing criminal charges.
– 09/21/11
AOSI v. USAID
The Brennan Center is challenging funding restrictions put on organizations that receive Global AIDS Act funding.
– Ongoing
Turner v. Rogers (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center, along with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of a petitioner seeking the right to counsel in civil contempt proceedings where he or she faces incarceration.
– 06/20/11
Amnesty Int’l v. Clapper (Amicus Brief)
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that plaintiff's have standing to challenge the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act. In December of 2008 and 2009, the Brennan Center for Justice filed supplemental amici in the case, urging the court to overturn the law.
– 03/21/11
Duncan et al. v. State of Michigan (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center, along with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the Constitution Project, filed an amicus brief in a case before the Michigan Supreme Court case that seeks to address the constitutional insufficiency of the state's indigent defense system.
– 08/11/10
Mohammedou Salahi v. Barack Obama (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center for Justice and Reprieve file a brief as amici curiae in support of Salahi.
– 06/22/10
Hurrell-Harring, et al. v. State of New York (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center co-authored an amicus brief signed by 62 former prosecutors in support of a suit that challenges New York's indigent defense system.
– 05/06/10
Kiyemba v. Obama (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center for Justice, along with a group of other organizations, has submitted three amici briefs in support of the D.C. District Court’s ruling that the government must release into the United States a group of Uighurs detained at Guantánamo Bay.
– 12/11/09
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder (Amicus Brief)
In these consolidated cases, which address the scope of the so-called “material support” statute, the Brennan Center submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of academic researchers and a professional media association.
– 11/23/09
Al Maqaleh v. Gates (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center for Justice and co-counsel submitted an amicus brief on behalf of retired military officers, urging the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the District Court’s decision to grant habeas review to three non-Afghan citizens apprehended outside Afghanistan and detained at Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
– 11/06/09