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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
District of Columbia v. Donald J. Trump

1:25-cv-02678 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2025

Closed Date: Sept. 26, 2025

In District of Columbia v. Trump, the District of Columbia sued to halt what it described as an unprecedented federal seizure of control over the city’s police force. The case raised immediate questions about the constitutional limits of presidential authority and the balance of power between federal and local governance in the nation’s capital. On August 15, 2025, the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald J. Tru…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.G. v. Noem

1:25-cv-00079 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 15, 2025

This case challenged the detention and threatened removal of a Venezuelan asylum-seeker under the Trump administration’s March 2025 proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), 50 U.S.C. § 21. On April 15, 2025, F.J.C.G. (a pseudonym), represented by the Children’s Legal Center, filed a habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Kristi Noem (Secretary of Homeland Security), Pamela Bondi (Attorney General), ICE Field Office Director Ladeon Fran…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
De Luca v. North Carolina State Board of Elections et al

5:16-cv-00913 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2016

On November 21, 2016, the CEO of the Civitas Institute filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina seeking declaratory and injunctive relief restraining the North Carolina State Board of Elections (the “Board”), the chief state election official of the Board and five members of the Board (collectively, the “State Defendants”) from counting and certifying votes cast in the November 2016 general election via same-day registration (“SDR”) until all SDR b…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
V.M.L. v. Harper

1:25-cv-00550 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

Closed Date: May 8, 2025

This is a case about the alleged unlawful detention and deportation of a U.S. citizen child without due process. On April 24, 2025, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on behalf of a two-year-old natural-born U.S. citizen, identified as V.M.L. The petitioner sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its Acting Director. Judge Terry A. Dou…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Parnell v. City of Berkeley

3:23-cv-06379 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2023

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2024

This case arose from a city’s plan to imminently clear an encampment of unhoused individuals with little notice. On December 11, 2023, three unhoused individuals filed suit against the City of Berkeley to prevent their eviction from an encampment at 8th and Harrison Streets. Proceeding pro se (that is, representing themselves), the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where it was assigned to District Judge Edward M. Chen. The plaint…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
McKinney v. Vilsack

2:21-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 10, 2021

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

This case is one of several brought challenging the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” A white farmer from Naples, Texas filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall) on June 10, 2021. The two defendants were the Secretary of Agriculture (who leads the USDA) and the administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). Plaintiff challenged Section 1005 of ARP which offered lo…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Dunlap v. Vilsack

2:21-cv-00942 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 24, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 2022

This case is one of several brought challenging the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” Two white farmers, a husband and wife, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Pendleton) on June 24, 2021. The two defendants were the Secretary of Agriculture (who leads the USDA) and the administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). Plaintiffs challenged Section 1005 of ARP which offered lo…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas & Missouri v. United States

2:21-cv-00067 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 13, 2021

This is a case about the Biden Administration's termination of the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy, Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which required individuals at the U.S.-Mexico border to wait in Mexico pending adjudication of their immigration claims. On President Biden's first day in office, January 20, 2021, the federal government suspended new enrollments in the program, functionally suspending MPP. A few months later, on April 13, 2021, the states of Texas and Missouri filed this l…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Women's Health Center of West Virginia v. Sheth

2:23-cv-00079 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2023

Closed Date: April 17, 2023

In 2023, West Virginia abortion providers and advocates challenged multiple provisions of HB 302, the state's near-total abortion ban. On February 1, 2023, Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, and a private doctor plaintiff, (collectively “WHC”), represented by the ACLU and private counsel, sued the President and Secretary of the West Virginia Board of Medicine in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. WHC challenged House Bill 302 (“HB 302”), enacted by the West…