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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

EDUCATION
Carter v. United States Department of Education

1:25-cv-00744 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

This case is about the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education and its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and the resulting halt of investigations into discrimination complaints. Plaintiffs filed this case in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on March 14, 2025. The plaintiffs in this case are (1) the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, a nonprofit representing the interests of parents with children with disabilities, and (2) parents who f…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

CHILD WELFARE
Brazwell v. Wagner

California state trial court

Filed Date: March 23, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2010

On March 23, 2010, the National Center for Youth Law, the Alliance for Children's Rights, and private counsel filed this state court lawsuit representing children who receive benefits through California's Kin-GAP program, which provides cash assistance and Medi-Cal to foster children living with relatives as their legal guardians. The program was created in 1999 by the California Legislature to encourage family members to care for youth who had been removed from their parents by the dependency …
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

CHILD WELFARE
Katie A. v. Bonta

2:02-cv-05662 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 2002

This lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California on July 18, 2002, by the class of children and young adults who (a) are in the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (b) have a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric impairment; and (c) need individualized mental health services. The suit is against County and State agencies for neglecting their responsibilities to provide mental health care services to foster children in California. Plaintiffs soug…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Twitter v. Barr [Holder]

4:14-cv-04480 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2024

[Note: This case was previously known as Twitter v. Holder, then Twitter v. Lynch, then Twitter v. Sessions] On October 7, 2014, Twitter -- an online social networking service -- filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Administrative Procedure Act. Twitter, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, a…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.R. (Lucas R.) v. Azar

2:18-cv-05741 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2018

This class action suit, filed on June 29, 2018, sought to enjoin the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of which ORR is a component part, from causing grave harm to migrant and asylum-seeking children in its care. 2018 WL 3209193. The plaintiffs--represented by the Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law, National Center for Youth Law, the Immigration Law Clinic at the UC Davis Law School, and private counsel--were members of th…

Administrative Matter Ongoing

CHILD WELFARE
D.S. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families

2:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

This is a case about the treatment of children in the care of the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with behavioral health and/or developmental disabilities. On January 28th, 2021, three children under the care of DCYF brought a class-action suit along with Disability Rights Washington against DCYF in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Barbara J. Rothstein. Disability Rights Washington argued …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
D.P. v. School Board of Palm Beach County

9:21-cv-81099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Closed Date: July 5, 2023

This case challenged the School District of Palm Beach County (“SDPBC”) for its utilization of the Baker Act, a Florida state law that authorized medical professionals and law enforcement officers to initiate an involuntary psychiatric examination of a person in specific circumstances, including when there was a reason to believe that 1) the person had a mental illness, and 2) because of that mental illness, they posed an immediate danger to themselves or others. On June 22, 2021, five students…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
J.N. v. Oregon Department of Education

6:19-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2019

This case is about discrimination that students with disabilities face in the Oregon Public School system. On January 22, 2019, plaintiffs brought a class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against the Oregon Department of Education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The plaintiffs sought to address the long-standing problem in Oregon of denying students wi…