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Mahdawi v. Trump

2:25-cv-00389 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

This case concerns a lawful permanent resident who was arrested and detained while attending a naturalization interview by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in retaliation for his outspoken criticism and protest of Israel’s military actions in Gaza. On April 14, 2025, Mohsen Mahdawi filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, challenging his detention. Mahdawi—who has lived in the U.S. for over a decade, is a recent student of Colum…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Khalil v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

1:25-cv-02079 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

This case challenged Columbia University’s disclosure of student disciplinary records and compliance with federal government demands aimed at suppressing pro-Palestine speech and political advocacy on campus. On March 13, 2025, Columbia students Mahmoud Khalil and seven pseudonymous co-plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Columbia University, university trustees, and multiple federal government defendants, including the House Committee o…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
E.K. v. Department of Defense Education Activity

1:25-cv-00637 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

This is a case about the censorship of books and curricula in federally operated schools for military families.  During the first weeks of his second term, President Trump issued a series of executive orders aimed at reshaping educational content in federally operated schools. On January 22, 2025, he signed Executive Order 14168, titled “Combating Gender Ideology in Federal Education,” which prohibited federally funded schools from including materials that “promote gender transition, nonbinary …

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

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

1:25-cv-00121 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 1, 2025

This lawsuit, filed on April 1, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenges the abrupt termination of $11 billion in federal public health funding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The plaintiffs—25 states and jurisdictions including Colorado, Rhode Island, California, and the District of Columbia—sued HHS and its Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., alleging that the termination of grants previously funded through COVID-19 legislation wa…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Webber v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:25-cv-00026 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

This is one of several cases challenging President Trump’s implementation of tariffs. This case raised urgent questions about the scope of presidential authority over trade and the constitutional rights of Indigenous communities living along the U.S.–Canada border. On April 4, 2025, two members of the Blackfeet Nation—Montana State Senator Susan Webber and rancher Jonathan St. Goddard—filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana against the United States, the U.S. …

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Schiff v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-10595 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 12, 2025

This case challenges the removal of medical articles from federal government websites. On March 12, 2025, two doctors filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They named the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and their corresponding agency heads as Defendants. Both plaintiffs published peer-reviewed articles on a government-run patient safety website (PSNet)…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-00943 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2025

This case challenged an interim final rule (IFR) issued by the Department of Homeland Security on March 12, 2025, that purported to establish a new, nationwide immigration registration system. The IFR created new requirements for noncitizens aged 14 and older who had been in the U.S. for at least 30 days but were not yet registered under the current system. The rule required them to submit personal information, fingerprints, and biometric data through a new online system. The rule also mandated…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.O.P. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:19-cv-01944 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 1, 2019

This case challenges the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 2019 policy memorandum that instructed asylum officers to reassess whether applicants previously determined to be unaccompanied alien children (UACs) still met that definition at the time of application and, if not, to decline jurisdiction. On July 1, 2019, four unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the De…

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

EDUCATION
American Educational Research Association v. U.S. Department of Education

8:25-cv-01230 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

Several lawsuits have been brought challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. This case is one; the others can be found here. This case challenges the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a research division within the U.S. Department of Education responsible for gathering and analyzing educational data. 2025 WL 160986. On April 14, 2025, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the So…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

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