Special Collection: Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government

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This collection includes cases brought by individuals, organizations, states, municipalities, and other entities against the second Trump administration. Cases in this collection deal with a broad range of civil rights issues, including but not limited to immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights, freedom of speech and the media, and administrative law. Click here for other cases involving the Trump Administration.

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
New York Immigration Coalition v. Trump

1:25-cv-01309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates v. Rubio

1:25-cv-00287 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
County of Santa Clara v. Trump

5:25-cv-00981 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Administrative Stay Granted
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

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Washington v. Trump

2:25-cv-00127 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CASA Inc. v. Trump

8:25-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Trump

1:25-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
O. Doe v. Trump

1:25-cv-10135 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Thien Le v. Donald J. Trump

8:25-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Administrative Stay Granted
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
Denka Performance Elastomer LLC v. EPA

24-01135 | U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

None
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00820 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to EPA’s freezing of funds appropriated to state Green Banks.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Climate United Fund v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00698 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 8, 2025

Case Ongoing

Climate United Fund challenge to withholding of EPA grant funds.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc v. Bureau of Land Management

4:25-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: March 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Final Environmental Assessment of the San Rafael Swell in Utah

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-00617 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

FOIA case pertaining to correspondence and records of the EPA transition team and political appointees relating to the Endangerment Finding.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York v. U.S. Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-01529 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Environmental organizations challenge Department of Agriculture's unpublishing of its climate-changed-focused webpages.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump

3:25-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Administration’s rescission of Biden-era environmental protections for certain areas of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.

Case Is Ongoing
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Somerville Public Schools v. Trump

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

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate the U.S. Department of Justice.

Case Is Ongoing
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. United States of America

8:25-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Democracy Forward Foundation v. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-00858 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

Democracy Forward Foundation challenge FOIA denial regarding information about federal agencies' reductions in force and reorganization plans.

Case Is Ongoing
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Widakuswara v. Lake

1:25-cv-02390 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to grant terminations and the placing of journalists on administrative leave from the United States Agency for Global Media.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Cristobol Human Rights v. Marocco

1:25-cv-00857 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the overhaul and defunding of the Inter-American Foundation by the Trump administration.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Institute of Peace v. Jackson

1:25-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

United States Institute of Peace challenged its dismantling and takeover by DOGE.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Aviel v. Gor

1:25-cv-00778 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the overhaul and defunding of the Inter-American Foundation by the Trump administration.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
EDUCATION
Carter v. United States Department of Education

1:25-cv-00744 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

Parents challenged the dismantling of the Department of Education and its Office of Civil Rights.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Doe v. Collins

1:25-cv-00760 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to termination of career civil servants of the Office of Equity Assurance of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
American Federation of Government Employees AFL-CIO v. Noem

2:25-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

American Federation of Government Employees challenge to retaliatory termination of government contract.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Gober v. Collins

1:25-cv-00714 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Probationary federal employees brought class action lawsuit challenging their termination.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Pueblo of Isleta v. Secretary of the Department of the Interior

1:25-cv-00696 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Tribal Nations and individual students challenged the layoffs at the Bureau of Indian Education and its post-secondary education institutions.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Maryland v. United States Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-00748 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Twenty states and the District of Columbia challenged the mass firing of federal civil servants.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Comans v. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-00624 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

Former CFO of FEMA challenged her termination under the Privacy Act.

Case Is Ongoing
LABOR RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
U.S. Office of Special Counsel, ex rel. v. Department of Agriculture

CB-1208-25-0020-U-1 | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

Office of Special Counsel challenge before the Merit Systems Protection Board of mass firings by Trump Administration.

Administrative Stay Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Schechter v. Collins

1:25-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Former employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs challenged her "probationary" employment status and firing.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
LeBlanc v. United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

1:25-cv-00542 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to firing of duly appointed/confirmed members of United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

3:25-cv-01780 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

Federal employees challenge the mass firing of probationary employees.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Doe 1 v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence

1:25-cv-00300 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by career U.S. intelligence officers temporarily assigned to personnel functions involving DEIA matters to their termination

Preliminary Injunction Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Complaint on Behalf of Terminated Probationary Employees

None | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge before the Office of Special Counsel to mass termination of federal probationary employees.

Administrative Stay Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Does 1-26 v. Musk

8:25-cv-00462 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Elon Musk's role, without Senate confirmation.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
New Mexico v. Musk

1:25-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by 14 states to Elon Musk's role without Senate confirmation.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Grundmann v. Trump

1:25-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to being fired by President Trump.

Case Dismissed
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Storch v. Hegseth

1:25-cv-00415 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Eight fired Inspectors General alleged their firing as a violation of the Inspector General Act.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Trump

1:25-cv-00420 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Five unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal employees challenge government mass firings.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harris v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00412 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board to being fired by President Trump.

Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Dellinger v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00385 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to being fired by President Trump.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought

1:25-cv-00381 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

Federal employees' union challenged the Trump Administration's "ongoing effort to dismantle" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Administrative Stay Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Government Accountability Project v. United States Office of Personnel Management

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

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the plan to shift civil servants to Schedule P/C, stripping them of civil service protections.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees v. Trump

1:25-cv-00352 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Wilcox v. Trump

1:25-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by National Labor Relations Board member to her removal by President Trump.

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Does 1-9 v. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-00325 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by FBI employees to prevent public disclosure of the identities of agents who worked on investigations involving Donald Trump.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Ezell

1:25-cv-10276 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

Federal employees challenge the "Fork in the Road” "deferred resignation" program.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Federal Bur. of Investigation Agents Association v. Dep't of Justice

1:25-cv-00328 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

FBI employees challenge public disclosure of the identities of agents who worked on investigations involving Donald Trump.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees v. Trump

1:25-cv-00264 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the effort to shift federal employees to Schedule P/C, stripping them of civil service protections.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. Trump

8:25-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the effort to shift federal employees to Schedule P/C, stripping them of civil service protections.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Trump

1:25-cv-00170 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the effort to shift federal employees to Schedule P/C, stripping them of civil service protections.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Institute of Peace v. Jackson

1:25-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

United States Institute of Peace challenged its dismantling and takeover by DOGE.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center v. Department of Housing and Urban Development

3:25-cv-30041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Fair housing organizations challenge termination of grants at the direction of DOGE.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Citizens Against Donald Trump, Inc. v. Trump

4:25-cv-00311 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 12, 2025

Citizens Against Donald Trump challenged the creation and operation of DOGE.
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Brehm v. Marocco

1:25-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to attempted shuttering and DOGE access of the United States African Development Foundation.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Japanese American Citizens League v. Musk

1:25-cv-00643 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

Four non-profits challenge the establishment of DOGE and the subsequent actions of Elon Musk and DOGE in collaboration with Federal agencies.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Department of Interior

1:25-cv-00612 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge alleging that DOGE Teams are Advisory Committees governed by FACA.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Project on Government Oversight, Inc. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00527 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Administration's retention of DOGE records as presidential records not subject to the Freedom of Information Act

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration

1:25-cv-00596 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to access to Social Security Administration data by Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE).

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. DOGE Service

1:25-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

FOIA request to Trump Administration regarding DOGE and its activities

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Center for Taxpayer Rights v. Internal Revenue Service

1:25-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to access to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data by Trump's "Department of Governmental Efficiency" (DOGE).

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Gribbon v. Musk

1:25-cv-00422 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Class action challenging Treasury Department's release of sensitive and protected data to "Department of Government Efficiency."

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Nemeth-Greenleaf v. United States Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-00407 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

Federal employees' challenge to sensitive information access by DOGE-affiliated individuals.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Oversight v. U.S. Department of Efficiency

1:25-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

Freedom of Information Act case against the "Department of Government Efficiency" and the Office of Management and Budget seeking communications involving Elon Musk and his key staff.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Morris v. Trump

1:25-cv-00435 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Closed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Pro se challenge to sensitive information access by DOGE-affiliated individuals.

Case Dismissed
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-01237 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

Current and former federal employees challenged DOGE access to their sensitive data.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to access to Treasury department systems by Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE)

Preliminary Injunction Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Teachers v. Bessent

8:25-cv-00430 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Current and retired federal workers' challenge to DOGE access to their personal information

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought

1:25-cv-00380 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

Current and former employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) challenge sensitive information access by DOGE-affiliated individuals.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
University of California Student Association v. Carter

1:25-cv-00354 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by a student association of the Department of Education's release of sensitive and personal information to the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE).

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-01144 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to access to Treasury financial systems by President Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency."

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Am. Fed. of Labor and Cong. of Indus. Org. (AFL-CIO) v. Dept. of Labor

1:25-cv-00339 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to access to Department of Labor systems by Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE)

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00313 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Federal employees and retirees challenge sensitive information access by DOGE-affiliated individuals.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Does v. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by federal workers to OPM's new centralized email system.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Public Health Association v. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-00167 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the legitimacy of the "Department of Government Efficiency" under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

Consolidated: Docket Closed
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Public Citizen, Inc. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00164 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the legitimacy of the "Department of Government Efficiency" under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Lentini v. Department of Government Efficiency

1:25-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the legitimacy of the "Department of Government Efficiency" under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

Consolidated: Docket Closed
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Center for Biological Diversity v. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-00165 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

FOIA request to Trump Administration regarding presidential transition materials, including those relating to DOGE.

Case Is Ongoing
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ireland v. Hegseth

1:25-cv-01918 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Trans Air Force members challenged military trans ban.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Schiff v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-10595 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Doctors challenged the removal of medical articles containing the terms "LGBTQ" and "transgender" from government website.

Case Is Ongoing
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Kingdom v. Trump

1:25-cv-00691 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Transgender individuals in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons challenged EO 14168, which banned gender-affirming care for federal inmates.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Rhode Island Latino Arts v. National Endowment for the Arts

1:25-cv-00079 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Four art nonprofits challenged the National Endowment for the Art's prohibition on the funding of art programs that promoted "gender ideology."

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
San Francisco A.I.D.S. Foundation v. Trump

3:25-cv-01824 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS nonprofits challenged the legality of three Executive Orders

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones v. Trump

1:25-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to mandate that transgender women in federal prison be housed in men's facilities and denied access to gender-affirming care.

Case Is Ongoing
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
State of Washington v. Department of Justice

2:25-cv-00244 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to funding cutoff and criminal prosecution threats for provision of gender-affirming care to transgender patients.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orr v. Trump

1:25-cv-10313 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump Administration's new passport policy barring accommodation of nonbinary or trans gender identity.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Shilling v. Trump

2:25-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Trans service members challenge military trans ban.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump

8:25-cv-00337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Executive Orders aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals under age nineteen.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. McHenry

1:25-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to mandate that transgender women in federal prison be housed in men's facilities and denied access to gender-affirming care.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Talbott v. Trump

1:25-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

Current and prospective trans service members challenge trans military ban.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRISON CONDITIONS
Moe v. Trump

1:25-cv-10195 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to mandate that transgender women in federal prison be housed in men's facilities and denied access to gender-affirming care.

Case Transferred: Docket Closed
EDUCATION
Tirrell v. Edelblut

1:24-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2024

Case Ongoing

2024 case by transgender highschoolers adds claim against Trump Administration for trans sports ban.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
American Association of University Professors v. Rubio

1:25-cv-10685 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration policy and practice of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizens who participate in pro-Palestinian protests.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Abrego Garcia v. Noem

8:25-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge against the deportation of Salvadoran national.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Chung v. Trump

1:25-cv-02412 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to attempted deportation of noncitizen student of Columbia University after her involvement in campus protest.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-10676 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to DHS policy and practice of deporting noncitizens to countries that are not their designated county of removal without due process.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Suri v. Trump

1:25-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

Indian citizen with student visa filed petition for writ of habeas corpus to challenge his detention and removal from the United States.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Solutions In Hometown Connections v. Noem

8:25-cv-00885 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Immigration nonprofits challenged the freezing of Citizenship and Integration Grant Program grants

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
E.Q. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-00791 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to rule issued under Biden administration categorically barring certain non-citizens from applying for asylum.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.G.G. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00766 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Proclamation declaring certain Venezuela nationals "Alien Enemies" subject to immediate deportation without judicial review.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

Appeal Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association v. Trump

1:25-cv-01464 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

Haitians challenged the Trump Administration's termination of Haitian Temporary Protected Status.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Chehab v. Noem

1:25-cv-10614 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

Lebanese citizen with H1B visa filed petition for writ of habeas corpus to challenge her detention and removal from the United States.

Case Is Ongoing
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

3:25-cv-01963 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

Palestinian advocate and legal permanent resident challenges his detention and the revocation of his green card.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00677 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Immigration nonprofits asked Court to declare it unlawful for the IRS or Treasury to release tax records for the purpose of enforcing immigration laws.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Haitian Americans United Inc. v. Trump

1:25-cv-10498 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump Administration's decision to rescind prior declarations related to Temporary Protected Status for people from Haiti and Venezuela.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Espinoza Escanola v. Noem

1:25-cv-00604 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 1, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump Administration's transfer of immigrant detainees to the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Noem

1:25-cv-10495 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Administration's narrowing of immigration parole for Ukrainians, Afgans, Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, and Nicauragans.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United Farm Workers v. Noem

1:25-cv-00246 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to immigration enforcement operation in Kent County, California

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
City of Chelsea v. Trump

1:25-cv-10442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by two Massachusetts cities to Trump Administration's targeting cities and states with immigration "sanctuary" policies.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CASA, Inc. v. Noem

8:25-cv-00525 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to DHS's attempts to strip immigrant Venezuelans in the United States of their Temporary Protected Status.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National TPS Alliance v. Noem

3:25-cv-01766 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to DHS's attempts to strip immigrant Venezuelans in the United States of their Temporary Protected Status

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration's suspension of refugee resettlement funding

Preliminary Injunction Denied
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center v. Noem

1:25-cv-00418 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Immigrant advocates and immigrants challenge Guantanamo Bay detention.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Denver Public Schools v. Noem

1:25-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Denver public schools challenged potential immigration enforcement in sensitive locations including schools.

Preliminary Injunction Denied
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mennonite Church USA v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-00403 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by religious organizations to potential immigration enforcement in religious spaces.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pacito v. Trump

2:25-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Administration's halt to refugee program.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending
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

Case Ongoing

Challenge by 16 cities/counties to Trump Administration policies targeting cities and states with sanctuary policies

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services v. Noem

1:25-cv-00306 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump Administration's closing off of asylum application processes.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Amica Center for Immigrant Rights v. United States Department of Justice

1:25-cv-00298 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to freeze on programs providing legal resources for noncitizens facing deportation.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:25-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by religious organizations to potential immigration enforcement in religious spaces.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Organized Communities Against Deportations v. Donald Trump

1:25-cv-00868 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to plans to conduct immigration raids in Chicago.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Franco Aleman v. Trump

2:25-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2025

Closed Date: Jan. 27, 2025

Challenge to President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

Consolidated: Docket Closed
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Huffman

1:25-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump Administration's expansion of Expedited Removal.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Perez Parra v. Castro

1:24-cv-00912 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2024

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration's transfer of detained immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security

1:24-cv-01702 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 12, 2024

Case Ongoing

Immigrant rights group already in court over Biden asylum policies challenged Trump Administration's asylum halt.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
American Association of University Professors v. United States Department of Justice

1:25-cv-02429 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration coercing Columbia University into regulating speech on campus by withholding funding.

Case Is Ongoing
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. United States of America

8:25-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

Case Is Ongoing
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Widakuswara v. Lake

1:25-cv-02390 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to grant terminations and the placing of journalists on administrative leave from the United States Agency for Global Media.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Cristobol Human Rights v. Marocco

1:25-cv-00857 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the overhaul and defunding of the Inter-American Foundation by the Trump administration.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Open Technology Fund v. Lake

1:25-cv-00840 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

Open Technology Fund challenge to freezing of appropriated funds.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00820 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to EPA’s freezing of funds appropriated to state Green Banks.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
RFE/RL, Inc. v. Lake

1:25-cv-00799 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to withholding of funding from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Aviel v. Gor

1:25-cv-00778 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the overhaul and defunding of the Inter-American Foundation by the Trump administration.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Erie County New York v. AmeriCorps

1:25-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Erie County, NY challenge to the conditioning of AmeriCorps funding on the removal of DEI programming.

Case Is Ongoing
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Solutions In Hometown Connections v. Noem

8:25-cv-00885 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Immigration nonprofits challenged the freezing of Citizenship and Integration Grant Program grants

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Power Forward Communities, Inc. v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00762 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

Power Forward Communities challenge to withholding of EPA grant funds.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. McMahon

1:25-cv-10601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Twenty states and District of Columbia challenge to the 50% reduction in the workforce of the Department of Education.

Case Is Ongoing
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center v. Department of Housing and Urban Development

3:25-cv-30041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Fair housing organizations challenge termination of grants at the direction of DOGE.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Butterbee Farm v. United States Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-00737 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Farms and nonprofits challenged the freezing of funds granted to them under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council v. Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Nonprofits challenge Trump's freezing of Inflation Reduction Act and Jobs Act funds.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Corporation for Public Broadcasting v. Federal Emergency Management Agency

1:25-cv-00740 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to FEMA’s hold on grants relating to the Next Generation Warning System.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Coalition for Green Capital v. Citibank, N.A.

1:25-cv-00735 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Coalition for Green Capital challenge to withholding of EPA grant funds.
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
San Francisco Unified School District v. AmeriCorps

3:25-cv-02425 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the conditioning of AmeriCorps funding on eliminating activities related to DEI, "gender ideology," and climate change.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Climate United Fund v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00698 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 8, 2025

Case Ongoing

Climate United Fund challenge to withholding of EPA grant funds.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Brehm v. Marocco

1:25-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to attempted shuttering and DOGE access of the United States African Development Foundation.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
EDUCATION
State of California v. U.S Department of Education

1:25-cv-10548 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by eight states to a funding freeze on grants meant to address nationwide teacher shortages and improve teacher quality.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
National Endowment for Democracy v. United States of America

1:25-cv-00648 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

National Endowment for Democracy sued federal agencies to access its congressionally appropriated funds.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Catholic Charities Diocese of Forth Worth, Inc. v. DHHS

1:25-cv-00605 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump Administration's ongoing freeze of money previously committed to Catholic Charities, Diocese of Forth Worth, for care of lawful refugees.

Case Is Ongoing
EDUCATION
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education v. Carter

1:25-cv-00702 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration's termination of over $600 million in funding to teacher preparation programs.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

Appeal 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

Case Ongoing

New York City challenges the Trump Administration's taking $80,481,861.42 of federally-appropriated funds from the City's central bank account.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration's suspension of refugee resettlement funding

Preliminary Injunction Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Personal Services Contractor Association v. Trump

1:25-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Administration’s suspension of foreign aid and dismantling of USAID.

Temporary Restraining Order Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Shapiro v. U.S. Department of the Interior

2:25-cv-00763 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

The Governor of Pennsylvania challenged Trump funding freezes.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Vought

1:25-cv-00458 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore challenged the shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Preliminary Injunction Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Global Health Council v. Trump

1:25-cv-00402 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Administration halt to all foreign-assistance funding.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. National Institutes of Health

1:25-cv-10338 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the announced reduction of indirect NIH funding to 15%.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Universities v. Department of Health & Human Services

1:25-cv-10346 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the announced reduction of indirect NIH funding to 15%.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to freeze on all foreign-assistance funding.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Medical Colleges v. National Institutes of Health

1:25-cv-10340 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the announced reduction in indirect NIH funding to 15%.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought

1:25-cv-00381 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

Federal employees' union challenged the Trump Administration's "ongoing effort to dismantle" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Administrative Stay Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees v. Trump

1:25-cv-00352 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to blanket spending freeze.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Council of Nonprofits v. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-00239 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to blanket spending freeze.

Preliminary Injunction Granted
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Coleman v. U.S. Department of Education

4:25-cv-10812 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Pro se challenge to Executive Orders and "Dear Colleague" letter targeting DEIA programs.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Erie County New York v. AmeriCorps

1:25-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Erie County, NY challenge to the conditioning of AmeriCorps funding on the removal of DEI programming.

Case Is Ongoing
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
San Francisco Unified School District v. AmeriCorps

3:25-cv-02425 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to the conditioning of AmeriCorps funding on eliminating activities related to DEI, "gender ideology," and climate change.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
EDUCATION
State of California v. U.S Department of Education

1:25-cv-10548 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by eight states to a funding freeze on grants meant to address nationwide teacher shortages and improve teacher quality.

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
EDUCATION
National Education Association v. United States Department of Education

1:25-cv-00091 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: March 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

The National Education Association challenged the Feb. 14, 2025, anti DEI "Dear Colleague" letter issued by the Department of Education

Case Is Ongoing
EDUCATION
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education v. Carter

1:25-cv-00702 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration's termination of over $600 million in funding to teacher preparation programs.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

Appeal Pending
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chicago Women in Trades v. Trump

1:25-cv-02005 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2025

Case Ongoing

Chicago Women in Trades challenges Trump executive orders targeting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
EDUCATION
American Federation of Teachers v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-00628 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

Three teacher and educational organizations and one school district challenge the February 14, 2025 Dear Colleague Letter published by the Department of Education.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
San Francisco A.I.D.S. Foundation v. Trump

3:25-cv-01824 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS nonprofits challenged the legality of three Executive Orders

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Urban League v. Trump

1:25-cv-00471 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Executive Orders targeting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Doe 1 v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence

1:25-cv-00300 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by career U.S. intelligence officers temporarily assigned to personnel functions involving DEIA matters to their termination

Preliminary Injunction Denied
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump

1:25-cv-00333 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to defunding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. Noem

1:25-cv-00872 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump administration policies expanding expedited removal of immigrants in the US legally through humanitarian parole processes.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Morgan v. McMahon

1:25-cv-00416 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

Individual federal student loan holder challenged the termination of income-driven repayment plans of federal student loans.

Case Is Ongoing
EDUCATION
American Federation of Teachers v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-00802 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

American Federation of Teachers challenged the termination of income-driven repayment plans of federal student loans.

Case Is Ongoing
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Taal v. Trump

3:25-cv-00335 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

Pro-Palestinian advocates challenged executive orders that chilled their speech under threat of criminal prosecution or deportation.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
LaFayette Square SBLC, LLC v. U.S. Small Business Administration

1:25-cv-00755 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge to rescission of Small Business Lending Company license.

Case Is Ongoing
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Democracy Forward Foundation v. U.S. Marshals Service

1:25-cv-00749 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

FOIA challenge relating to U.S. Marshals Services documents pertaining to January 6 cases and enforcement of judicial orders.

Case Is Ongoing
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Khalil v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

1:25-cv-02079 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Pro-Palestinian students of Columbia University, including Mahmoud Khalil, challenged the suppression of their speech by the university, Congress, and the Trump administration.

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-00716 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

Challenge by Perkins Coie LLP to Executive Order targeting Perkins Coie

Temporary Restraining Order Granted
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Associated Press v. Budowich

1:25-cv-00532 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

The Associated Press sues White House officials for banning the AP from the press pool for refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

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

Case Ongoing

Challenge to Trump Administration’s attempt to terminate Congestion Pricing in New York City.

Case Is Ongoing