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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Authors Guild v. National Endowment for the Humanities

1:25-cv-03923 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's April 2025 termination of over 1,400 grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The scholar plaintiffs had each received an NEH grant to fund their humanities projects, only for their grants to be terminated without notice by the Trump Administration. The grants, due to be disbursed in May 2025, had been awarded in 2024 under the Biden Administration. NEH grants are very competitive and bestow a high level of prestige on the…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of New York

1:25-cv-00744 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 12, 2025

This case challenges New York's "Protect Our Courts Act," Executive Order 170, and Executive Order 170.1, all of which broadly limit cooperation between state and local authorities and federal immigration enforcement. New York's Executive Order 170, issued in 2017, and its 2018 amendment, Executive Order 170.1, limit state officers from inquiring about or disclosing immigration status for civil enforcement, and restrict federal immigration arrests in state facilities without a judicial warrant.…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. National Science Foundation

1:25-cv-04452 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 28, 2025

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2025

This case challenges two actions by the Trump Administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) that sixteen states argue will severely undermine the United States’ leadership in STEM. First, in a policy issued on April 18, 2025, the NSF “announced that it would no longer abide by Congress’s longstanding policy to promote a robust STEM workforce that draws in underrepresented populations.” The Priority Directive stated that the NSF's efforts would not give preference to certain groups over oth…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
African Communities Together v. Lyons

1:25-cv-06366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2025

This case challenges the Trump Administration's campaign of arresting noncitizens at immigration court proceedings, and its summary dismissal of immigration cases without affording noncitizens the opportunity to seek asylum or other affirmative relief. The case was filed on August 1, 2025, by African Communities Together (ACT) and The Door in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Acting Director; the Secretar…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. City of New York

1:25-cv-04084 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

This case involves one of many federal government challenges to sanctuary city laws.   On July 24, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the City of New York and its Mayor, as well as other top local agencies and their leadership. Filing under the Supremacy Clause, the Trump Administration claimed that New York’s sanctuary laws obstructed federal efforts to detain individuals unlawfully present in the country. Further,…

Case Is Ongoing

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

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

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Duffy

1:25-cv-01413 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's February 2025 attempt to rescind federal funding for the New York State's congestion pricing program in New York City. The federal government had previously agreed that New York State could assess tolls on vehicles entering federal highways around the city. New York State had already fully implemented the program beginning on January 5, 2025. On February 19, 2025, plaintiffs, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Triborough Bridge and Tu…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Betances v. Fischer

1:11-cv-03200 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 2011

On May 11, 2011, three individuals given extrajudicial sentences of post-release supervision filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The named defendants were the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and the New York State Division of Parole (DOP). They claimed that the defendants administratively assigned sentences of post-release supervision (PRS) and that only a judge could impose an additio…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ragoonath v. Swissport USA, Inc.

1:15-cv-01356 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 17, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 18, 2015

This is an employment disabilities case. On March 17, 2015 a private plaintiff employee filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against his employer alleging that his employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York City Human Rights Law for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation and retaliation for request a reasonable accommodation.  Plaintiff had suffered a workplace injury to his back in 2014, and while he was clear…