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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

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Oversight v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:25-cv-01987 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 26, 2025

This is a case about government transparency concerning immigration enforcement records. On June 26, 2025, American Oversight filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiff sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Judge Rudolph Contreras was assigned to the case. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff submitted a FOIA request to ICE on April 10, 2025, seeking documents including internal emails,…

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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1:25-cv-01020 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

In this case, non-profit organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) challenged the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) April 1, 2025, closure of its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office and the CDC’s non-compliance with CREW’s subsequent FOIA requests for expedited processing. The FOIA requests sought, per CREW’s complaint, “records regarding the agency’s staff reductions and other matters of significant public interest”—including an ongoing…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

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

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Does v. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2025

This case challenged the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) deployment of a government-wide mass email system without first completing and publishing a legally required Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). On January 27, 2025, seven pseudonymous plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against OPM under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the E-Government Act of 2002. The plaintiffs alleged that their personal information was collected and sto…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. v. Bessent

3:25-cv-00554 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 20, 2025

This case challenged a rule promulgated on August 19, 2024, by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The rule, entitled "Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers" (the "Rule"), allegedly exceeded FinCEN's statutory authority by requiring disclosure of all non-financed residential real estate transactions, rather than limiting disclosures to "suspicious" transactions as authorized by statute. Plainti…

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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Flowers Title Companies, LLC v. Bessent

6:25-cv-00127 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

In this case, a title company in Texas challenged a federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) rule—published during the Biden Administration on August 29, 2024 and set to take effect on December 1, 2025—that requires “certain persons involved in real estate closings and settlements to submit reports and keep records on certain non-financed transfers of residential real property to specified legal entities and trusts on a nationwide basis.” Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Resid…

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NATIONAL SECURITY
American Oversight v. Hegseth

1:25-cv-00883 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

This case challenges high-level federal officials' use of encrypted, auto-deleting messaging apps to conduct national security business, raising serious record-keeping and transparency concerns.  On March 25, 2025, American Oversight filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the CIA, and several other senior federal figures. The plaintiffs challenged the defendants’ use of t…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Oversight v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-02390 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

This case challenges DHS’s failure to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests related to the Executive Order’s revival of the Alien Registration Act. On his first day of his second term, President Trump signed Executive Order 14159, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” directing the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that all previously unregistered non-citizens comply with the Alien Registration Act of 1940, also known as the Smith…

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Department of Transportation

1:25-cv-00996 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 3, 2025

This is a case about the federal government’s failure to respond to public records requests concerning potential rollbacks of vehicle pollution and fuel economy standards. On April 3, 2025, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Represented by private counsel, EDF sought decla…

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