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Blue v. Lockhart

5:84-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Closed Date: March 27, 2024

On December 5, 1984, a prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arkansas Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that prison officials had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion. The parties entered into a consent decree. On April 16, 1992 the plaintiff asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt, claiming that they had violated the consent d…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EDUCATION
United States investigation of Columbia University

NA (Out of court) | No Court

This matter involved United States investigations of Columbia University for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On March 3, 2025, the Trump Administration Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education, and US General Services Administration, as part of the Federal Government's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, announced they would conduct a comprehensive review of Columbia University's federal contracts and grants in conjunction with the T…

Administrative Matter Ongoing

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

Closed Date: Oct. 20, 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

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mirabelli v. Olson

3:23-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2023

This is a case about parental notification rules related to transgender and gender non-conforming students in schools. On April 27, 2023, two middle school teachers sued the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), the California State Board of Education, and various associated officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California before Judge Roger T. Benitez, challenging the school district policy AR 5145.3. The challenged policy requires teachers and staff to r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Frankel v. Regents of The University of California

2:24-cv-04702 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 5, 2024

Closed Date: July 18, 2025

This is a case about speech and religious freedom on college campuses. On June 5, 2024, a group of Jewish students at UCLA sued the Regents of the University of California and other university officials in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California based on the university's alleged failure to protect Jewish students, faculty, and staff during on-campus protests. The plaintiffs brought claims under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; 42 U.S.C. § 1985 (conspiracy to interfere wi…

Settled: Case Closed

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Hassan v. Reese

2:25-cv-01139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 30, 2025

This case concerned alleged unequal access to religious accommodations for Muslim inmates in Oregon prisons. On June 30, 2025, three Muslim inmates filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Pendleton Division, against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). The plaintiffs, represented by Public Accountability and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), brought two claims. First, they alleged disparate holiday accommodations under the Equal Protection …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Jones v. Mahaniah

1:25-cv-12449 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2025

Closed Date: Sept. 4, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 3, 2025, Plaintiffs, through the Alliance Defending Freedom, sued individuals involved with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families's (“DCF”) decision to revoke the licenses of Christian foster parents based on their religious beliefs. 

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kloosterman v. Metropolitan Hospital

1:22-cv-00944 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2022

Closed Date: April 5, 2024

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On October 11, 2022, Plaintiff, a physician's assistant previously employed by Metropolitan Hospital for seventeen years, filed suit against her former employer in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Plaintiff claimed that she requested a religious accommodation to the Hospital's attempt to compel her to pledge, against her sincerely held religious convictions and her medical conscience, that she would speak biology-o…

Judgment for Defendant

Reversed

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Care and Prevention of Eve

SJC-13672 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2024

Closed Date: May 15, 2025

[This summary is temporary, while we research the case.] In this impounded (that is, sealed) case, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held the state constitution’s free exercise of religion protection was violated by the Department of Children and Families when they vaccinated a child over the religious objections of her parents while the child was in temporary custody. 
EDUCATION
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

1:24-cv-11354 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 22, 2024

Closed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

This case is about alleged antisemitism at Harvard College. On May 22, 2024, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights (“Brandeis Center”), the Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education (“JAFE”) and Harvard graduate students brought this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard. The plaintiffs alleged that Harvard failed to adequately protect its Jewish and Israeli students from discrimination; they brought claims under Title VI for dire…