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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 07:11:03+00:00

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CCR sued corporate military contractors for their roles in torture at Abu Ghraib and other sites, and secured the only financial settlement to date for the victims of these abuses.
In a lawsuit against Shell for the company’s complicity in human rights abuses against Nigeria’s Ogoni people, including murder, CCR garnered an historic $15.5 million settlement for the victim's families.
Saleh, et al. v. Titan, et al.
A challenge to corporate impunity for torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Abtan, et al. v. Prince, et al. and Albazzaz, et al. v. Prince, et al.
Amicus briefs in a case seeking civil liability from multinational corporations for their role aiding and abetting the South African apartheid regime.
Al Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services challenged corporate impunity for torture and other war crimes at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq.
Heirs of victims of the Armenian genocide sue German corporations for unpaid insurance benefits.
Orian et al. v. FIDH et al.
Wiwa et al v. Royal Dutch Petroleum et al.
Local 1330 of the United States Steelworkers filed a lawsuit in federal court to save 3,500 jeopardized jobs by keeping open four large steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio.
Arsberry v. State of Illinois, AT&T, Invision Telecom, MCI Telecommunications Corp., et al.
A civil rights lawsuit which challenged the State of Illinois’ practice of creating exclusive agreements with telephone companies for inmate telephone service.
Since our founding in 1966, the Center has pioneered legal strategies to ensure that courtroom doors remain open to those with the least access to justice. In few instances is this more difficult than when our clients are seeking justice for human rights violations committed or facilitated by a powerful corporation. Starting in the 1990s, the Center began expanding the use of the Alien Tort Statute, one of our signature legal tools, to litigate these corporate cases. A long line of cases has followed since our first victory of the kind in Doe v. Unocal. Standing by our courageous clients, we have since taken on corporations like Shell, Chevron, and Caterpillar for gross human rights violations committed outside the United States, and have supported efforts to ensure corporate accountability by filing amicus briefs in U.S. courts and contributing to corporate accountability efforts at the international level. Our most recent litigation and advocacy efforts in this area have focused on the role of U.S.-based private military contractors in the unlawful killing of civilians by Blackwater in Iraq and in the torture of civilians at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The #NoDAPL movement was powerful, factual, and Indigenous-led. Lawsuit lies can’t change that.
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