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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Ritchie v. Polis

2020CV31708 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: May 18, 2020

Closed Date: July 1, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So, for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of September 01, 2020, On May 15, 2020, the Governor issued an executive order to temporarily suspend requirements that govern ballot issue petitions to minimize the risks of COVID-19. The Order suspends certain provisions from Title 1, Article 40 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, including one that requires a petition circu…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

Reversed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Suri v. Trump

1:25-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

This case concerns the retaliatory detention and attempted deportation of a noncitizen allegedly targeted for his constitutionally protected speech and familial associations. On March 18, 2025, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and Georgetown University postdoctoral scholar, filed a habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, challenging his sudden immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Represented by the ACLU of Virgi…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National TPS Alliance v. Noem

3:25-cv-05687 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

This case is about the federal government’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. On July 7, 2025, the National TPS Alliance and private plaintiffs who are individual TPS holders filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its Secretary, and the United States under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment. The case was assigned to Judge Trina…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Swanson v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-00020 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2022

On February 5, 2021, a pro se individual (“Plaintiff”) filed a Complaint against the State of Georgia (“Defendant”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Plaintiff alleged that the January 2021 runoff election of Georgia’s two United States Senators was unconstitutional and void. Specifically, Plaintiff argued that Defendant could not impose upon Plaintiff Defendant’s duty to select Georgia’s United States Senators, and Plaintiff had no constitutional authori…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hernandez v. Noem

1:25-cv-02344 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 21, 2025

This case challenged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use of I-220A as a release mechanism.  The plaintiffs in this case are three Cuban nationals who were apprehended while entering the United States and processed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Under Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the plaintiffs were subject to mandatory detention until the conclusion of their removal proceedings. The plaintiffs allege that ICE unlawfully deviated fr…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters v. Thurston

5:20-cv-05174 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 23, 2023

This case regarded the constitutionality of Arkansas’ requirements for absentee voting. Arkansas law requires election officials to reject absentee ballots that lack a voter’s signature or for which the officials perceive a mismatch between the name, signature, address, or date of birth on a voter’s absentee ballot and their absentee ballot materials. Once officials conclude an absentee ballot is deficient on these grounds, affected voters receive neither an opportunity to cure nor any notice t…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chiles v. Salazar

1:22-cv-02287 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2022

This case raises a free speech challenge to the Colorado state ban on conversion therapy for viewpoint discrimination. The question raised is whether the First Amendment bars states from imposing discipline on health care providers for providing treatment to children that the legislature has reasonably determined to fall below the professional standard of care. In March 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.  On September 5, 2022, Kelly Chiles – a licensed counselor within Colora…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Pending in Supreme Court

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.G.M.L. v. Kristi Noem

1:25-cv-02942 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2025

This case followed media reports revealing the Trump administration's plans to summarily deport hundreds of Guatemalan minors. At 1:02am on August 31, 2025, ten Guatemalan unaccompanied minors (ages 10–17), represented by the National Immigration Law Center, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated children. The suit named multiple federal agencies and their respective leaders, including the Department of Homela…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
City of Seattle v. Trump

2:25-cv-01435 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 31, 2025

This case challenged provisions of Executive Order No. 14173 (the "Anti-Diversity Order") and Executive Order No. 14168 (the "Gender Order"), which imposed new conditions on recipients of federal contracts and grants. The City of Seattle contended that the Executive Orders unlawfully imposed vague conditions on federal funding, thereby jeopardizing essential municipal services such as transportation, housing, and public safety by threatening to withhold funds based on policies promoting diversi…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Delaware v. Delaware Department of Elections

2020-0761-SG | Delaware state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2020

This case challenged the deadline found in Delaware's Vote-By-Mail Statute for the receipt of mailed ballots in the September 15, 2020, primary election. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Delaware General Assembly passed House Bill Number 346, which Delaware Governor Carney signed into law on July 1, 2020. This law allowed Delawareans to vote by mail for Delaware's September 15, 2020, primary election and expired in January 2021. Voters could request mail-in ballots up until October 31,…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)