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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

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana v. Knudsen

2:23-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: July 7, 2023

In May 2023, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed House Bill 359 (“HB 359”) into law, banning “drag story hours” in schools and libraries and prohibiting businesses and state-funded entities from allowing minors to see “sexually oriented performances.” Any library, school, library or school personnel, or public employee convicted of violating the act would be fined $5,000. Moreover, any minor who attended a drag story hour would be able to sue within 10 years and would be guaranteed statutory…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Board of Education for the Silver Consolidated Schools v. McMahon

2:25-cv-00586 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: June 20, 2025

This case challenged the termination of a $6 million award under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to the Board of Education for the Silver Consolidated Schools (Board). On February 14, 2025, the Department of Education (DOE), by and through its Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, issued a Dear Colleague Letter threatening schools and colleges across the country with the loss of federal funding if these education institutions continued to pursue ambiguously defined "DEI programs" th…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors v. Trump

3:25-cv-07864 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2025

This case is about the Trump administration’s termination of federal grants to the University of California system and the administration’s withholding of federal funding and grants to incentivize universities to eradicate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their campuses. This case is substantially related to Thakur et al v. Trump et al.  On September 16, 2025, labor unions and associations that represent faculty, students, and academic employees throughout the University of California Sy…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-01096 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

Closed Date: June 17, 2025

This case challenged the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to terminate plaintiffs’ environmental grants without notice or substantive reason. These grants, awarded in 2024 under the Biden Administration, comprised $8 million given directly to each plaintiff and access to a further $52 million for plaintiffs to distribute among other community-based environmental initiatives in their respective cities. In February 2025—under the Trump Administration—plaintiffs each received …

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending

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
Authors Guild v. National Endowment for the Humanities

1:25-cv-03923 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's April 2025 termination of over 1,400 grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The scholar plaintiffs had each received an NEH grant to fund their humanities projects, only for their grants to be terminated without notice by the Trump Administration. The grants, due to be disbursed in May 2025, had been awarded in 2024 under the Biden Administration. NEH grants are very competitive and bestow a high level of prestige on the…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Thakur v. Trump

3:25-cv-04737 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This case is about the alleged unlawful termination, suspension, or reduction of federal research grants to University of California researchers under a series of executive orders issued by President Trump and directives from the Department of Governmental Ethics (DOGE). On June 4, 2025, a group of University of California researchers, faculty, staff, academic appointees, and employees filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Pre…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

POLICING
United States of America v. City of Minneapolis

0:25-cv-00048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …

Administrative Stay Granted

POLICING
United States of America v. Louisville Metro/Jefferson County Government

3:24-cv-00722 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2024

On April 26, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it had opened a pattern and practice investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) to assess: all use of force, with a particular focus on use of force against individuals with behavioral health disabilities or individuals engaged in activities protected by the First Amendment; discriminatory practices in conducting stops, searches, seizures, and arrests; department policies, training, and supervision; and LMPD account…

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