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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Garcia Ramirez v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:18-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 5, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) policies for detaining immigrants after they turned 18 who had entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors. On March 5, 2018, two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where it was assigned to District Judge Rudolph Contreras. They brought suit on behalf of a class of unaccompanied children who had been placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services' Of…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. Richland County

8:22-cv-01358 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenges conditions for pretrial detainees who have serious mental illnesses.  This case was filed by Disability Rights South Carolina (DRSC) against Richland County, South Carolina, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on April 28, 2022. Represented by private counsel, DRSC sued on behalf of incarcerated individuals and alleged that the dangerous and inhumane pre-trial detention practices at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (ASGDC) violated their rights.…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez Vazquez v. Bostock

3:25-cv-05240 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to the policy and practice of denying bond hearings to detained noncitizens at the Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington. Beginning in late 2022, immigration judges at the Tacoma Immigration Court stopped granting bond hearings to immigrants who had entered the United States without inspection, treating them as subject to mandatory detention with no possibility of release. On March 20, 2025, a Washington resident who had been detained at the Northwest…

Case Is Ongoing

Affirmed

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
United States of America v. David Hearn

26-10237 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: July 2, 2026

Case Ongoing

This criminal case arose from the Trump administration’s claim that the failures of the renovated lining of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were the result of vandalism.  According to news reports, on March 31, 2026, the National Park Service approved the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool, permitting a new “American flag blue” liner to be installed ahead of “America 250” events in Washington, D.C. The government subsequently awarded a no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City and County of San Francisco v. Sessions III

3:18-cv-05146 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2022

This case involved an attempt by the Trump Administration to condition federal funding on state and local government’s participation in federal immigration enforcement. On August 22, 2018, the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. San Francisco, represented by the city attorney, sued Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Acting Assistant Attorney General, the United States Department Justice (DOJ), a…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guertin v. State of Michigan

5:16-cv-12412 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case is one of many filed in response to the 2014 Flint water crisis, which occurred when Flint began to draw corrosive water from the Flint River to save money, exposing thousands to lead and other toxins. On June 27, 2016, a resident of Flint who drank and bathed in lead-contaminated water filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of herself and her minor child. (The complaint named, but did not describe, a second individual plaintiff wh…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Dismissed

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Cato Institute v. U.S. Department of Education

5:22-cv-04055 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

Closed Date: July 24, 2023

In this lawsuit, filed October 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court of Kansas, the Cato Institute, a nonprofit libertarian think tank challenged President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. Plaintiff claims that the one-time student loan debt relief will weaken the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which Cato says nonprofits rely upon to incentivize potential employees. Cato argued that the loan forgiveness program violated the Appropriations Clause of Article I § 9 of the Constitutio…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

DISABILITY RIGHTS
EEOC v. Kroger

1:25-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

On January 17, 2025, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a civil action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, against The Kroger Co. The action was brought under Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), as amended, and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May.   The EEOC alleged that Kroger engaged in unlawful employment practi…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Climate United Fund v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00698 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 8, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the freezing of federal grant funds meant for green infrastructure projects. The dispute stemmed from the National Clean Investment Fund, a program under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Congress established through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Climate United was selected as a grantee in April 2024, receiving $6.97 billion in funding to support clean energy projects across the United States, particularly in low-income, rural, and tribal communities. Under th…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Affirmed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

3:25-cv-02847 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 21, 2025, the Trump administration officially terminated funding for legal representation for unaccompanied immigrant children. This case challenges this action. On March 26, 2025, Community Legal Services and other non-profit legal services and advocacy groups for immigrants and refugees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), and th…
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Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied