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United States v. State of Minnesota

0:25-cv-03798 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2025

This case challenged Minnesota’s state and local “sanctuary” policies that restrict cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The United States alleged that Minnesota, along with Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Hennepin County, enacted and enforced laws and directives that obstruct the federal government’s ability to detain and remove undocumented immigrants, in violation of the Supremacy Clause. On September 29, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the D…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste v. Noem

6:25-cv-00699 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

This case is one of several challenging a January 20, 2025, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy (outlined in a document termed the “Huffman Memorandum”) that rescinded the Federal Government’s longstanding policy not to conduct immigration enforcement in “protected areas,” such as churches and schools. The previous policy, outlined in a 2021 DHS memorandum, had specified that agents were to refrain, to the fullest extent possible, from engaging in law enforcement actions near or i…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. The City of Rochester

6:25-cv-06226 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case involves one of many federal government challenges to sanctuary city laws. Rochester’s sanctuary laws prohibit city employees from assisting in federal immigration enforcement. The United States alleged that Rochester's laws violated 8 U.S.C. § 1373, which is a cause of action that pertains to obstructing communication to and from the Immigration Naturalization Services. The U.S. also alleged that Rochester’s sanctuary laws violated the Supremacy Clause.  The U.S. filed the lawsuit on…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Chelsea v. Trump

1:25-cv-10442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2025

This case challenges Executive Order 14159, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” which directs the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to impose civil and criminal enforcement actions against “sanctuary jurisdictions” by withholding federal funds. On February 23, 2025, the Cities of Chelsea and Somerville, Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against President Trump, the United Sta…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. City of Los Angeles

2:25-cv-05917 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 30, 2025

This case challenged Los Angeles's "sanctuary city" policies which seek to protect noncitizens. In 2017, the California State Legislature enacted the California Values Act (CVA) that, when implemented in Los Angeles, "restricted cooperation with federal immigration authorities and ordered that the LAPD shall not: [i]nvestigate, interrogate, detain, or arrest a person for civil immigration purposes; or [i]nquire into an individual’s civil immigration status." The act also "requires LAPD personne…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of New York

1:25-cv-00205 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

The federal government filed this case against New York State's immigration-friendly “Green Light Law”, which allows undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license without providing a social security number. The United States filed its complaint on February 12, 2025, against the state of New York in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The complaint claimed that the Green Light Law violated the Supremacy Clause, and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. This …

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State of New York v. Noem

1:25-cv-08106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2025

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Congress created the Rail and Transit Security Grant Program (“TSGP”), and since its inception, the TSGP has awarded New York funds to, among other things, "protect sensitive transit networks against chemical, biological, radiological, or explosive threats, improve transit evacuation systems, and make improvements to transit security.” TSGP is administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”), w…

Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. City of Newark

2:25-cv-05081 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 22, 2025

This case challenged the "sanctuary city" policies of several cities in New Jersey. On May 22, 2025, the United States sued the cities of Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, and Hoboken, along with their city councils and mayors, in the District Court for the District of New Jersey, where the case was assigned to District Judge Evelyn Padin.  The U.S. alleged that the defendants' policies violated the Supremacy Clause, as well as 8 U.S.C. § 1373, which bars obstructing communication between governme…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City and County of San Francisco v. Donald J. Trump

3:25-cv-01350 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to withhold federal funding from "sanctuary cities" in order to coerce them to comply with the Administration’s immigration agenda. On February 7, 2025, five cities and counties–San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Portland, OR; King County, WA; and New Haven, CT–filed this lawsuit against President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the District Court for the Northern District of Cal…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

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Central American Refugee Center v. Ryder

613541/2025 | New York state supreme court

Filed Date: June 24, 2025

On June 24, 2025, the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN), Haitian American Family of Long Island (HAFALI), the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, civil rights activist Marc Soto, and an anonymous undocumented resident filed this article 78 petition against Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) and Nassau County challenging NCPD’s March 2025 decision to enter into an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pursuant to INA  Section 287(g). The agreement gave local law…

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