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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
State of Washington v. Trump

2:25-cv-00602 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

This case challenged the President's authority to dictate how states conduct their elections. On April 4, 2025, the State of Washington and the State of Oregon filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against President Donald Trump, along with numerous other federal entities and officials, including the Executive Office of the President, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Departme…

Case Is Ongoing

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. …
EDUCATION
Association for Education Finance and Policy v. McMahon

1:25-cv-00999 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 4, 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 challenged the abrupt dismantling of the federal government's primary education research agency. On April 4, 2025, the Association for Education Finance and Policy, Inc. and the Institute for Higher Education Policy filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by the Publ…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Department of Defense v. American Federation of Government Employees

6:25-cv-00119 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 27, 2025

This case sought a judicial determination as to whether federal agencies under the Trump Administration have the authority to rescind or repudiate certain specified collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with government unions. On March 27, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14251. This order exempted certain federal agencies and their subdivisions from participating in federal labor-management relations programs, based on the national security responsibilities assigned to those agen…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees AFL-CIO v. Noem

2:25-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

This case challenged a February 27, 2025 determination by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to terminate a 2024 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The 2024 CBA, which was intended to remain in effect for seven years, permitted Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) to voluntarily join AFGE and receive workplace protections, representation, and collective bargaining r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

POLICING
Wilkins v. City of Chicago

1:23-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 26, 2023

This is a case about the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) alleged pattern and practice of race-based and discriminatory police practices in traffic stops conducted since 2016. On June 26, 2023, five plaintiffs who had been repeatedly stopped by CPD officers, on what they claimed was limited suspicion, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged unlawful race and national origin discrimination in violation of …
POLICING
United States of America v. City of Minneapolis

0:25-cv-00048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …

Administrative Stay Granted

POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Abramowitz v. Lake

1:25-cv-00887 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 26, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s effective shutdown of Voice of America (VOA) and its grantee networks following Executive Order 14238, “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.” On March 26, 2025, VOA Director Michael Abramowitz and three senior staff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Senior Advisor Kari Lake, and Acting CEO Victor Morales. Represented by private counsel, plain…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors - Harvard Faculty Chapter v. U.S. Department Of Justice

1:25-cv-10910 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 11, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s 2025 suspension and termination of federal funding to Harvard University in response to alleged antisemitism on campus. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.)  On April 11, 2025, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), its Harvard Faculty Chapter (AAUP–Harvard), and the United Auto Workers (UAW) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Di…

Judgment for Plaintiff