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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Moore v. Johnson

2:14-cv-11903 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 12, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2014

This case involves a civil rights action to challenge the constitutionality of a Michigan statute which requires individuals to be registered voters to circulate nominating petitions to place candidates for partisan office on the primary election ballot. For such placement, Michigan election law requires submission of at least 1,000 valid signatures of registered Michigan voters who reside in the candidate's congressional district. A candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives submitted nom…

Settled: Case Closed

EDUCATION
United States v. Maine Department of Education

1:25-cv-00173 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: April 16, 2025

In this case, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the second Trump Administration sued the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, alleging that MDOE was violating Title IX by allowing boys who identify as girls to participate in girls' sports. In a complaint filed on April 16, 2025, the DOJ alleged that MDOE's "policies and actions are harming girls by denying girls the opportunity to compete in student sports on a level playing field in whi…

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Starboard Group, Inc.

3:24-cv-02260 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2024

This is one of several cases originally brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the Biden Administration to enforce Title VII’s prohibition of sex-based workplace discrimination against transgender employees. In these cases, the EEOC’s position was that discrimination on account of gender identity and sexuality necessarily constituted sex-based discrimination in violation of Title VII. After President Donald Trump was elected, the EEOC reversed its position and …

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Chelsea v. Trump

1:25-cv-10442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2025

This case challenges Executive Order 14159, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” which directs the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to impose civil and criminal enforcement actions against “sanctuary jurisdictions” by withholding federal funds. On February 23, 2025, the Cities of Chelsea and Somerville, Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against President Trump, the United Sta…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Doctors for America v. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-00322 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

This lawsuit challenged an order from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directing agencies to remove or modify webpages and datasets.  On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” directing federal agencies to combat "gender ideology” (EO 14168). In response, on January 29, the Acting Director of OPM issued a memorandum titled “Initial Guidance Regarding Presid…

Administrative Matter Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ozturk v. Hyde

2:25-cv-00374 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On March 25, 2025, Turkish national and Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was abruptly detained by masked plainclothes agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. The federal government re…

Habeas Relief Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. State of Oregon

6:25-cv-01666 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2025

In this case, the Trump administration challenged the State of Oregon’s alleged violation of federal voting laws. The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division (DOJ) is tasked with ensuring that States conduct voter registration list maintenance “to prevent inclusion of ineligible voters on any State’s voter registration list.” On July 16, 2025, citing, among other things, a high ratio of registered voters to voting aged citizens in the State of Oregon and alleging lack of compliance by…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ledesma Gonzalez v. Bostock

2:25-cv-01404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 2, 2025

This case is about the detention and out-of-district transfer of a Mexican national during his appeal period, without attorney access. On July 2, 2025, Fernando Ledesma Gonzalez filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Acting Director, the Seattle Field Office Director of ICE/ERO, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Secretary, and the Attorney General. Th…

Habeas Relief Granted

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Pennington v. Taylor

2:19-cv-00695 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

On September 19, 2019, attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and Southern Poverty Law Center––representing plaintiffs who, as children, were tried and convicted as adults––filed this lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General, the Secretary of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, and others in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs alleged that the state's Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (SORNA) was an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth…
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