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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Finn v. Global Engagement Center

3:25-cv-00543 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 15, 2025

This case challenged a purported conspiracy between federal agencies and officials, private technology companies, and nonprofit organizations to orchestrate a censorship campaign targeting health and wellness influencers for their speech on social media. Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on May 15, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The lawsuit named President Trump; various government agencies and their heads; and social media conglomerates Meta, Google, and X (fo…

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Progeny v. City of Wichita

6:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: April 15, 2021

This is a case challenging the Wichita Police Department’s (WPD) usage of gang lists, alleging that they imposed a disparate impact on Black and Latinx residents and that they were unconstitutional in their implementation. The plaintiffs, Progeny (a community-based organization seeking to prevent the incarceration of young people) and Wichita residents who had been impacted by these policies, were represented by Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the ACLU of Kansas. The plaintiffs fi…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Khairullah v. Garland

3:23-cv-30095 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2023

This lawsuit relates to a terrorism watchlist maintained by the United States government. Several Muslim American citizens, permanent residents, and asylees brought this lawsuit alleging that the US government placed names on the list without valid reason, and that the Muslims on the list face scrutiny only because of anti-Muslim discrimination. On September 18, 2023, twelve Muslim-Americans filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the heads of twenty-nine…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Elhady v. Piehota

1:16-cv-00375 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 6, 2016

On April 5, 2016, a group of Muslim-American U.S. citizens represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (in Alexandria). Judge Anthony J. Trenga was assigned to the case. Defendants included the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), the Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”), and the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCC”). Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, the plaintiffs alleged …
POLICING
Handschu v. Special Services Division

1:71-cv-02203 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 18, 1971

On May 18, 1971, residents of New York City filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued an intelligence division within the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Special Services Division (SSD), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and private counsel, sought class certifi…
POLICING
Blanchard v. City of Memphis

2:17-cv-02120 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

On February 22, 2017, four plaintiffs filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, against the City of Memphis, Tennessee for violating their First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs all found themselves on a “black list” created by the Memphis Police Department. They argued that the police department created the “black list,” which consisted of 81 individuals, by recording video protests of City Hall. The black list appeared to denote the individuals who the …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kariye v. Mayorkas

2:22-cv-01916 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 24, 2022

This lawsuit challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) policies which subjected Muslim Americans to questioning about their religion. After these interrogations, border officers retained the answers in a law enforcement database for up to 75 years. The plaintiffs asserted that this questioning was part of a broader 20-year practice of border officials targeting Muslim American travelers because of their religion. On March 24, 2022, the plaint…

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NATIONAL SECURITY
El Ali v. Barr (Jardaneh v. Barr)

8:18-cv-02415 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2018

This case concerns the placement of Muslims on federal terrorist watchlists. The United States government employs various terrorist watchlists to track terror suspects. These watchlists include the FBI's Terrorism Screening Database (TSDB) and the Transportation Security Agency's Quiet Skies program. Twenty Muslims filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on August 8, 2018. Defendants included a wide variety of federal agency officials, including the U.S. Department of…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Abdi v. Wray

2:17-cv-00622 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 17, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2020

This 2017 lawsuit challenged the FBI’s placement of a U.S. citizen on a terrorist watchlist; it was dismissed in 2019.The Terrorism Screening DataBase, also known as the “terrorist watchlist,” is maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), a division of the National Security Branch of the FBI. The watchlist includes sub-lists--a No Fly List and a Selectee List. People on the No Fly List are not allowed to fly on American airplanes or flights into the US. People included on the Selectee …
NATIONAL SECURITY
American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:17-cv-00733 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 12, 2017

Closed Date: July 11, 2019

On Apr. 12, 2017, the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties filed this lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This was one of over a dozen such suits; each aimed to shed light on how U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) implemented President Trump's Jan. 27 and Mar. 6 Executive Orders that banned admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Specifically, plaintiffs sought information "concerning CBP’s local implementation of Presi…