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City of Chicago v. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-05463 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 16, 2025

This case challenges the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) termination of funding for the Shelter and Services Program (SSP). SSP was a congressional initiative established to reimburse local governments for providing humanitarian assistance—including food, shelter, and medical care—to migrants processed and released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  On February 10, 2025, FEMA allegedly halted all SSP funding without prior notice by “de-obligating” the funds. This a…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harris County, TX v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

1:25-cv-01275 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case challenged the decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its component Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to terminate over $11 billion in congressionally appropriated grants to state and local governments. The grants were designed to fund outbreak prevention programs and to ameliorate the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic. To terminate these grants, HHS and the CDC were statutorily required to make a determination that the individual recipient…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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
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

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Chicago v. Noem

1:25-cv-12765 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 20, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On October 20, 2025, plaintiffs City of Chicago, City of Boston, City and County of Denver, City of Minneapolis, City of New Haven, City of New York, City of Saint Paul, Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and Ramsey County filed this Complaint to enjoin Defendants from imposing unlawful conditions in Department of Homeland Security grants that keep their Cities safe. The Executive Branch has determined to use this critical federal fundin…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
City of Seattle v. Trump

2:25-cv-01435 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 31, 2025

This case challenged provisions of Executive Order No. 14173 (the "Anti-Diversity Order") and Executive Order No. 14168 (the "Gender Order"), which imposed new conditions on recipients of federal contracts and grants. The City of Seattle contended that the Executive Orders unlawfully imposed vague conditions on federal funding, thereby jeopardizing essential municipal services such as transportation, housing, and public safety by threatening to withhold funds based on policies promoting diversi…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
The City of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-01510 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s reversal of previously approved federal emergency shelter funding to the City of New York and the termination of the underlying grant program. On February 21, 2025, the City of New York filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against President Donald Trump, FEMA, DHS, the Treasury Department, and associated officials. The case was assigned to Judge Jennifer H. Rearden. The lawsuit arose out of FEMA’s She…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

EDUCATION
Somerville Public Schools v. Trump

1:25-cv-10677 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 24, 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. On March 24, 2025, several school districts and labor organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, suing President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Education, and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. The plaintiffs challenged the Trump administration's efforts to dis…

Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Anchorage School District v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 21, 2025

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2025

This case challenged the decision of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to withhold nearly $7 billion in funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). This funding was required by statute to be disbursed to states on July 1, 2025. Statute provides formulas for OMB to use in calculating the exact amount the U.S. Department of Education (ED) must give to each state, provided that state has plans to run ESEA programs previously approved by ED. All 50 states had such plans…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New Jersey v. Trump

1:25-cv-10139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted