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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration

1:25-cv-00596 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

This case challenged the U.S. DOGE Service’s access to sensitive federal information systems. Since President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, the U.S. DOGE Service and Elon Musk allegedly initiated a broad and unlawful campaign to access highly sensitive information systems across multiple federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration. This occurred in the broader context of the Trump Administration’s unprecedented reliance on DOGE, a temporary organization created wi…

Plaintiffs’ Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration

Feb. 21, 2025

Plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

American Federation of State v. Social Security Administration

March 7, 2025

Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction, and/or 5 U.S.C. 705 Stay

American Federation of State v. Social Security Administration

March 7, 2025

Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction, and/or 5 U.S.C. 705 Stay

American Federation of State v. Social Security Administration

March 7, 2025

Order

American Federation of State v. Social Security Administration

March 10, 2025

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Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Rise Economy v. Vought

1:25-cv-02374 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 23, 2025

This case challenges the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s decision to delay enforcement of a key anti-discrimination lending transparency rule for women- and minority-owned small businesses. On July 23, 2025, Rise Economy, an organization that supports low-income communities and communities of color in accessing credit and financial services; the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), a nonprofit advocating for equitable capital investment; Main Street Alliance, a national netw…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump

3:25-cv-03698 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

On April 28, 2025, the American Federation of Government Employees and several other labor organizations, nonprofits, and cities/counties filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. They named President Donald Trump and numerous federal departments and agencies and their agency heads as Defendants. The Plaintiffs challenged Executive Order 14210, which ordered agencies across the federal government to engage in a radical transformation of the …

Case Is Ongoing

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-01270 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

On April 24, 2025, three nonprofit organizations filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary. They challenged Defendants' shuttering of three offices within DHS: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office (CIS-Omb), and the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO). CRCL is charged by statute with receiving a…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Primus v. Trump

1:25-cv-03521 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2025

This case challenged President Trump’s removal of a member of the Surface Transportation Board (STB). On August 27, 2025, President Trump removed plaintiff, Robert E. Primus, from his position as a member of the STB. Plaintiff had served on the Board since being appointed during President Trump’s first term in January 2021. His current five-year term was not set to expire until December 31, 2027. Under the Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2015, STB is a “multimember, bipartis…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harris County, TX v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

1:25-cv-01275 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case challenged the decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its component Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to terminate over $11 billion in congressionally appropriated grants to state and local governments. The grants were designed to fund outbreak prevention programs and to ameliorate the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic. To terminate these grants, HHS and the CDC were statutorily required to make a determination that the individual recipient…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
FreeState Justice v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1:25-cv-02482 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 29, 2025

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168, titled "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government." The order established a policy to recognize only two sexes, male and female, and directed federal agencies to enforce sex-protective laws based on this binary definition. It also mandated that agencies remove any materials promoting "gender ideology" and that forms requiring sex information must list only "male" or "…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
New England Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America v. Department of Homeland Security

4:25-cv-40102 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 28, 2025

On January 20, 2025, then-Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded a decades-old policy that limited immigration enforcement at “sensitive locations” like houses of worship. The new policy removed prior approval requirements and gave agents broad discretion to carry out enforcement based on their “individual discretion” and “common sense,” without requiring exigent circumstances. DHS and other government officials publicly supported the chan…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Ezell

1:25-cv-10276 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Closed Date: Sept. 24, 2025

This is a challenge to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) “Fork in the Road” email on January 28, 2025, which was sent to nearly all federal employees and announced a "deferred resignation" program. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 28, 2025, OPM sent an email entitled “Fork in the Road” to nearly all federal career employees. The email announced a purported "deferred re…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Angelica S. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:25-cv-01405 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 8, 2025

This case challenges an interim final rule (IFR) issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on March 24, 2025, along with related policy changes from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in March and April 2025, both of which concern the release of unaccompanied noncitizen children to family sponsors. Previously, the 2024 ORR “Foundational Rule” had prohibited the agency from rejecting potential sponsors solely based on their immigration status or from collecting their perso…

Preliminary Injunction Granted