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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's authority to suspend congressionally appropriated federal financial assistance pending a review to ensure that the spending accords with Administration priorities. On January 27, 2025, an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memorandum directed federal agencies to temporarily pause activity related to obligation or disbursement of Federal financial assistance, and funds for other activities implicated by executive orders, including financial assi…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barco Mercado v. Noem

1:25-cv-06568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2025

This case challenged allegedly unconstitutional conditions of confinement at a transitional holding station within the New York City Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office at 26 Federal Plaza ("26 Fed"). The challenged conditions arose amid an increase in ICE arrests following a presidential order setting a quota of 3,000 arrests per day. The 26 Fed facility consisted of gender-segregated concrete cells designed for temporary detention of a few hours while individuals were processed f…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

DISABILITY RIGHTS
State of Texas v. Becerra

5:24-cv-00225 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2024

This is a federal lawsuit brought by 16 Republican state attorneys general challenging the Biden Administration's Department of Health and Human Services’ publication of updated final rules (the “Final Rule”) for implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - which prohibits discrimination based on disability in programs that receive federal funding. The states challenge two aspects of the rule for allowing gender dysphoria to count as a disability, and strengthening the “integration mand…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Climate United Fund v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00698 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 8, 2025

This case challenged the freezing of federal grant funds meant for green infrastructure projects. The dispute stemmed from the National Clean Investment Fund, a program under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Congress established through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Climate United was selected as a grantee in April 2024, receiving $6.97 billion in funding to support clean energy projects across the United States, particularly in low-income, rural, and tribal communities. Under th…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Reversed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. McMahon

1:25-cv-10601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

This case, brought by 21 states, challenged the Trump administration's directive to dismantle the Department of Education through a massive "reduction in force." The immediate catalyst for this lawsuit was the Department of Education’s announcement on March 11, 2025, of a near-50% workforce reduction, seen by the plaintiff states as an unlawful attempt to incapacitate the agency and its statutorily mandated functions. The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, herself stated that these workforc…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

POLICING
State of Illinois v. Trump

1:25-cv-12174 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2025

In one of the most significant tests of presidential power over domestic military deployment in decades, the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago sued the Trump Administration to block their attempt to federalize and deploy the National Guard within Illinois. Filed on October 6, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois before District Judge April M. Perry, the complaint alleged that President Donald J. Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi…

Case Is Ongoing

Pending in Supreme Court

JAIL CONDITIONS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Jackson

1:19-cv-01634 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

On April 10, 2019, two female detainees in the South Fulton Municipal Regional Jail and the Georgia Advocacy Office filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and the South Fulton Municipal Jail under 42 U.S.C.§ 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Georgia Advocacy Office, sought class certification…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kaimowitz v. Supervisor of Elections

1:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

This is a case about Florida’s judicial election system and whether excluding unopposed judicial candidates from ballots violates voting rights. On July 15, 2016, the plaintiff, a disbarred attorney proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Gainesville Division. The plaintiff sued the Supervisor of Elections for Alachua County, John Harkness (Florida Bar executive director), Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Inc. (“EJC…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council v. Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

On March 13, 2025, four environmental-justice nonprofits including Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council commenced this Administrative Procedure Act (APA) action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The complaint was filed against the United States Departments of Agriculture, Department of Energy, and other federal agencies and their respective leadership.  Plaintiffs alleged that Executive Order No. 14154, “Unleashing American Energy,” and Office of Management and Bud…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. State of Alabama

2:16-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 25, 2023

A voting rights organization and several convicted felons filed putative class action against the Alabama Secretary of State, chair of county board of registrars, and chair of Board of Pardons and Paroles, alleging that the amendment to state constitution disenfranchising persons convicted of felonies involving moral turpitude violated Equal Protection and Ex Post Facto Clauses, and that Alabama's mail voting registration form violated National Voting Registration Act (NVRA).  The Supreme Court…