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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orr v. Trump

1:25-cv-10313 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Transgender and nonbinary Americans sued the Trump Administration over its changes to passport policy, which required new passports issued by the State Department to reflect applicants’ sex assigned at birth. President Trump’s Executive Order 14168 directed the Secretary of State to “implement changes to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex” as defined within the order. Under this policy,…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Schiff v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-10595 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 12, 2025

This case challenges the removal of medical articles from federal government websites. On March 12, 2025, two doctors filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They named the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and their corresponding agency heads as Defendants. Both plaintiffs published peer-reviewed articles on a government-run patient safety website (PSNet)…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

EDUCATION
Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

2:25-cv-00781 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

This lawsuit challenges the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle—via mass layoffs and office closures—the Head Start program, a Congressionally-established federal program that provides young children of low-income families “a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs.” Since its launch in 1965, Head Start has “successfully improved the educational, health, social, and economic outcomes for families and children, particularly Black…

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

April 28, 2025

Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

May 13, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy Jr.

May 16, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order/To Postpone Effective Date of Agency Action

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy

July 21, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order/ To Postpone Effective Date of Agency Action

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy

July 21, 2025

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Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

This immigration case involved the United States government’s forcible separation of over 2,000 asylum-seeking families who arrived at the southern border without documentation. On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Hom…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Brandt v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00450 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 25, 2021

On April 6, 2021, the Arkansas legislature passed H.B. 1570 — the "Save Adolescents from Experimentation” (SAFE) Act — over the governor’s veto. The Safe Act banned healthcare professionals from providing gender transition procedures, including puberty blockers and hormones, to anyone under 18 or from referring anyone under 18 to any healthcare professional for such procedures. Additionally, the SAFE Act prohibited coverage of gender transition procedures for minors by Medicaid or private insur…

Injunction Granted

Reversed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District

5:25-cv-00756 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 2, 2025

This a case challenging Texas Senate Bill 10 (S.B. 10), which required public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.   On July 2, 2025, the plaintiffs, a group of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Unitarian Universalist, and nonreligious families with children enrolled in Texas public school districts (collectively, “the families”), filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court of the Western District of Texas.  Represented by private counsel as well as the ACLU of Texas, the n…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
W.M.M. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00059 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 16, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. In March 2025, President Trump issued Proclamation No. 10903, 90 Fed. Reg. 13034, invoking the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), 50 U.S.C. §21, to detain and remove Venezuelan nationals "who are members of TdA [a gang, Tren de Aragua]”  In J.G.G. v. Trump, twelve detainees and a putative class sought injunctive a…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court granted stay of removal

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fowler v. Stitt

4:22-cv-00115 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 14, 2022

This case involves a constitutional challenge to a state law barring transgender individuals from amending their birth certificates. On March 14, 2022, three transgender people born in Oklahoma brought this suit against the Oklahoma Governor, the Oklahoma State Department of Health Commissioner, and the State Registrar of Vital Records in their official capacities. Represented by Lambda Legal and the ACLU, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Bland v. Bondi

1:25-cv-03499 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

Plaintiffs are a group of prisoners on death row, the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, and Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Tennesse. They are being represented by the ACLU Foundation. The plaintiffs brought this suit against Pamela Bondi, in her official capacity, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Amit P. Mehta was assigned to the case. To apply expedited procedures for federal habeas rev…

Preliminary Injunction Denied