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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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
United States v. Walz

0:25-cv-02668 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 25, 2025

This case challenges the constitutionality of Minnesota’s state tuition and scholarship policies for undocumented students. On June 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota against Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, and the State of Minnesota. Represented by the Department’s Civil Division and Office of Immigration Litigation, the United States sought decla…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States v. Simon

0:25-cv-03761 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2025

Filed on September 25, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota before District Judge Katherine M. Menendez, United States v. Simon is one of six parallel enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, against state election officials in California, New Hampshire, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Collectively, these suits allege that the defendant states failed to comply with federal requirements for voter list mainten…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kohls v. Ellison

0:24-cv-03754 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2024

This case challenged Minnesota officials’ regulation of online speech through alleged misuse of consumer protection and anti-fraud laws.  On September 27, 2024, Minnesota State Representatives Christopher Kohls and Mary Franson, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The plaintiffs sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Douglas County Attorney Chad Larson, claiming that enforcement threats against their online content violated the First Amendment…

Judgment for Defendant

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POLICING
United States of America v. City of Minneapolis

0:25-cv-00048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …

Administrative Stay Granted

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Women's Life Care Center v. Ellison

0:24-cv-04250 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 2024

Closed Date: Aug. 27, 2025

On November 22, 2024, Women’s Life Care Center, Dakota Hope Clinic, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, together with several doctors and mothers, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota against state officials including Attorney General Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz, as well as abortion providers and clinics, including Planned Parenthood branches. The plaintiffs argued that the Fourteenth Amendment protects a mother’s constitutional r…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pavek v. Simon

0:19-cv-03000 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

This case is about a Minnesota law, Minn. Stat. § 204D.13(2), that requires general election ballots to list the major political party candidates in reverse order based on the average number of votes their party received in the last state general election. Because the Minnesota Democratic Party, called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), received the highest average vote share in the 2018 general election, the ballot order statute required DFL candidates to be listed last on the 2020 gener…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

Appeal Dismissed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Minnesota v. Trump

0:25-cv-01608 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 22, 2025

On his first day in office, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168, entitled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government." The Gender Ideology Order denies the existence of transgender people and claims that sex-based identifications are required under Title IX. Further, the order bans the use of grant funds for research or programs that endorse "gender ideology." The next week, President Trump issued an Executive Order that rei…

Case Is Ongoing

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Frost v. Lion Brand Yarn Company

0:24-cv-00950 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 15, 2024

This case, brought by legally blind Minnesota residents, alleged that an inaccessible website was in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act against an inaccessible website. Plaintiffs sued Lions Brand Yarn Company on March 15, 2024, in U.S. District Court in the District of Minnesota. Plaintiffs, legally blind residents of Minnesota, set forth in their complaint that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12181, et seq., applies to online spaces and websites of public …

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Harsono v. Trump

0:25-cv-01976 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: May 2, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On May 2, 2025, a noncitizen filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota relating to his placement in removal proceedings following rescission of his F1 student visa, allegedly ba…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted