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Walker v. Johnson

1:05-cv-00934 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2005

Closed Date: June 18, 2009

On August 10, 2005, Darick Demorris Walker, a death-sentenced prisoner of the State of Virginia, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Virginia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Walker, who was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, complaining that the lethal injection procedures used by the defendants would violate his constitutional rights by subjecting him to a…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Allen v. International Truck and Engine

1:02-cv-00902 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 10, 2002

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

On October 16, 2001, a group of current and former African-American employees and job applicants filed a lawsuit against Defendant under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for monetary and injunctive relief, alleging that they and other similarly-situated African-American employees had suffered and continued to suffer racial harassment and a hostile work environment as w…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Dugan

2:25-cr-00089 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case was a highly unusual federal criminal prosecution of a sitting state court judge—who was alleged by the Trump Administration to have interfered with an immigration arrest. On April 24, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin indicted Wisconsin Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on two counts: (1) obstruction of a federal administrative proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1505, and (2) concealment of a person from arrest under 18 U.S.C. § 1071. The case was assigned to U.S. Di…

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Cahill v. Nike, Inc.

3:18-cv-01477 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

This is a putative class action by women employees of Nike alleging gender discrimination in pay and promotion.  It was filed on August 9, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon and assigned to Magistrate Judge Jolie A. Russo. Two former employees, represented by private attorneys, filed the suit on behalf of a putative class of all current and former female employees who had worked in a salaried corporate position at Nike during the two previous years. They alleged violati…

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Cepeda v. State of Florida

1:17-cv-11835 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2017

Closed Date: May 24, 2018

On June 25, 2013, the United States Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Shelby County v. Holder. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires certain covered jurisdictions to obtain approval from federal authorities in Washington, D.C. before changing voting procedures. Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act defined these covered jurisdictions as ones that had a voting device or test in the 1960s or early 1970s and had lower voter turnout or registration in the 19…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-00196 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

This case challenged mass terminations and office shutdowns at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). On March 27, 2025, HHS announced it would send layoff notices to 10,000 full-time employees. This reduction in force was part of an ongoing effort to make HHS “more efficient and more effective.” (Tweet by Secretary Kennedy, March 27, 2025).  On May 5, 2025, nineteen states and the District of Columbia (Plaintiffs) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Distr…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Oregon v. Trump

1:25-cv-00077 | U.S. Court of International Trade

Filed Date: April 23, 2025

This is one of several cases challenging President Trump’s implementation of tariffs. This case challenged President Trump’s unilateral imposition under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China, and 57 other countries. Plaintiffs, twelve U.S. states, filed this lawsuit on April 23, 2025, in the U.S. Court of International Trade. The suit named as defendants President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its secretar…

Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Johanna Foods, Inc. v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-00155 | U.S. Court of International Trade

Filed Date: July 18, 2025

This is one of several cases challenging President Trump’s implementation of tariffs. This case challenged the imposition of a 50% tariff on Brazilian orange juice imports.  On April 2, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14257, establishing a 10% ad valorem duty on all imports. Subsequently, Executive Order 14266 paused elevated tariffs for most countries for 90 days while maintaining the 10% global tariff on April 9, 2025. After extending certain tariff suspensions until August 1, 20…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Oregon v. Trump

3:25-cv-01756 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2025

On September 28, 2025, the State of Oregon and the City of Portland filed suit in the District of Oregon against President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Department of Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Plaintiffs allege that Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 memorandum, issued under 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and signed by President Trump, federalized 200 members of the Oregon National Guard for a 60-day …

Case Is Ongoing

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Patterson v. Virginia Department of Corrections

3:23-cv-00757 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2023

This is a class action lawsuit concerning sex discrimination in the Virginia Department of Corrections’ (VDOC) policies on body scanners. On November 9, 2023, three current and former female VDOC employees, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The employees sued VDOC via 2 U.S.C. §§ 2000e, alleging sex discrimination in employment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and …