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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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

EDUCATION
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. United States of America

8:25-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Several challenges have been brought to 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 challenged the Trump administration’s authority to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). On March 24, 2025, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), three regional NAACP branches, three teachers’ unions, and three parents of children who benefit from DOE programs filed this l…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

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…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Widakuswara v. Lake

1:25-cv-01015 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

This case challenges the grant terminations and the placing of journalists on administrative leave from the United States Agency for Global Media. On March 14, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14238 entitled “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” 90 Fed. Reg. 13043, which directed that the "non-statutory components and functions" of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”  USAGM is an indepe…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

POLICING
United States v. City of Portland

3:12-cv-02265 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2012

This lawsuit was the culmination of an 18 month-long investigation of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141. That investigation, which began in June of 2011, was prompted by the high number of PPB officer-involved shootings that involved individuals with mental illness. On September 13, 2012, the DOJ issued a findings letter stating that it found reasonable cause to believ…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.M. v. Noem

2:25-cv-00747 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 16, 2025

This class action lawsuit challenges conditions at a temporary immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades. Built in June 2025, the facility consists of tents, trailers, chain-link fencing, and barbed wire, with a capacity of at least 3,000 people. It is surrounded by wetlands populated with alligators and venomous snakes. President Trump publicly stated that detainees would “learn how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” adding that “…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-11913 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

Except under narrow circumstances, federal funds (such as Medicaid reimbursements) may not be used to provide abortions. The "Defund Provision" denies Medicaid funds to certain prohibited entities entirely, including organizations that provide abortions and entities receiving more than $800,000 in Medicaid funds in the 2023 fiscal year. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) claims the law was drafted to target member organizations, including those that do not provide abortions. On…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Abrego Garcia v. Noem

8:25-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

On March 15, 2025, as reported by several news outlets, the second Trump administration deported almost 300 noncitizens—mostly Venezuelan nationals and some Salvadoran nationals—to El Salvador without going through any legal process in front of an immigration judge. Upon arrival, they were sent to the country’s mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT. This lawsuit challenged the deportation of one of the Salvadoran nationals, who had actually won protection from removal several y…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…
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…