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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00677 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 7, 2025

This case concerned protection of taxpayer privacy rights against immigration enforcement policies. On March 7, 2025, the Washington Post published an article indicating that the Department of Homeland Security was seeking taxpayer data from the Internal Revenue Service, including Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) for immigration enforcement purposes. The IRS had initially refused to release ITIN information. However, after Melanie Krause was appointed Acting Commissioner on Fe…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Pending

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of California v. United States Department of Agriculture

3:25-cv-06310 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 28, 2025

This case challenges the federal government's demand for sensitive personal information on millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applicants and recipients. The federal government claims the data is necessary for program integrity, specifically to detect "overpayments and fraud". On July 28, 2025, a coalition of states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), its Secretary, and…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Goodman v. Lutnick

8:25-cv-02097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 30, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s mass termination of federal probationary employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), alleging violations of the Privacy Act. On June 30, 2025, four former NOAA employees—Arianna Goodman, Sarah Scott, Christine Buckel, and Jennifer Raulin—filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against high-level officials and agencies including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, the U…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Jackson v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-01750 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 3, 2025

This case asked for damages due to the termination of thousands of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its subcomponents on the basis of incomplete or inaccurate personnel records. On June 3, 2025, seven individuals formerly employed by HHS brought a class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated (a class action). The plaintiffs sued Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of HHS, HHS, …

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Paz v. Internal Revenue Service

1:25-cv-03256 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2025

The plaintiff, Holly Paz, is the former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner of Large Business and International Division. At the beginning of September, 2025, the IRS issued a Notice of Proposed Adverse Action (“Proposal”) to Ms. Paz that proposes to remove her from federal service “in order to promote the efficiency of the Service." The plaintiff alleged that the IRS relied on allegations dating back two decades that had been previously investigated in the plaintiffs favor. The IRS gra…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of California v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

3:25-cv-05536 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 1, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s disclosure of confidential Medicaid beneficiary data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for immigration enforcement. On July 1, 2025, twenty-one states and the District of Columbia 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), Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Secretary Kristi Noem. Th…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Comans v. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-00624 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 4, 2025

This case challenged the legality of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) February 11, 2025, firing of FEMA's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump administration, click here.) On March 4, 2025, the plaintiff sued FEMA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after FEMA fired her—without notice—from her position as CFO, even though the plaintiff had no disciplinary hist…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Pallek v. Rollins

1:25-cv-01650 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 22, 2025

This is a challenge to DOGE-led efforts to centralize states' data on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). On March 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14243, titled "Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos," calling on agencies to "ensure unfettered access to comprehensive data from all state programs." USDA published a letter to SNAP State Agency Directors on May 6, telling them that USDA must retain unfettered access to their comprehens…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic National Committee v. Trump

1:25-cv-00952 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2025

This case challenged President Trump’s March 2025 executive order titled, "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" (EO 14248). (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions taken by the second Trump Administration, click here.) In relevant part, EO 14248 seeks to make several changes to the rules governing elections. First, it directs the Election Assistance Committee (EAC) to alter the federal voter registration form prescribed by Congress ("Feder…

Consolidated: Docket Closed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
University of California Student Association v. Carter

1:25-cv-00354 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Closed Date: April 16, 2025

This case challenged the Department of Education’s decision to allow the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access sensitive student financial aid records. When President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, one of his first acts was the issuance of an executive order establishing a “Department of Government Efficiency.” In the executive order, President Trump renamed the United States Digital Service as the United States DOGE Service (USDS) and ordered the USDS administrator t…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)