Support Article

How To Search Guide
Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:

Support Article

How To Search Guide
64 cases, 983 documents
Ordered by
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Luna Gutierrez v. Noem

1:25-cv-01766 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit challenging the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay. On January 29, 2025, President Trump issued a presidential memorandum titled “Expanding the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to Full Capacity,” directing the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare the facility to detain up to 30,000 migrants. The memorandum eliminated procedural safeguards such as bond hearings, individualized custody reviews, and access to im…

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

This is a case about three Venezuelan nationals who were detained indefinitely due to diplomatic breakdowns between the United States and Venezuela that made deportation infeasible. On September 13, 2024, the three Venezuelan nationals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. They sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the United States, and the Otero County Processing Center under th…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

2:25-cv-01963 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

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. This case challenges the detention and attempted deportation of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the campus protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University throughout the spring of 2024. Khalil was a lawful permanent resident o…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Quintero Chacón v. Dickerson

4:25-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

The petitioner in this case, a Venezuelan non-citizen, initially filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on February 10, 2025 pro se in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. In his initial petition, he requested that he be released from detention in Georgia, where he soon would have been held beyond the statutory limit.  The petitioner ceased challenging deportation but could not be deported as the parties agreed that Venezuela was not taking deportations. This…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado, Inc. v. Trump

3:25-cv-01501 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: June 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges Executive Order 14170. The substantive filings in this case have not yet been made public. Issued on April 15, 2025, Executive Order 14170 revised asylum eligibility criteria, expanded expedited removal procedures, and established new restrictions on how asylum seekers may present claims at ports of entry and along the border, resulting in changes to the processing of asylum claims. On June 11, 2025, Al Otro Lado, Inc., a nonprofit legal services organization, and several a…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Taylor v. Trump

1:25-cv-01161 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 16, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the decision of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, at the instigation of President Trump, to bypass statutorily-required procedures for reassignment of prisoners and transfer 37 inmates to ADX Florence, the harshest unit in the federal prison system. All of these prisoners—21 of whom are the plaintiffs in this case—had previously been serving federal death sentences commuted to life without parole by President Biden on December 23, 2024. This decision prompted then-President-…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

PRISON CONDITIONS
Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.

1:08-cv-00827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case involves allegations of abuse and torture suffered by four Iraqi men who were detained at Abu Ghraib in 2003. On June 30, 2008, an Iraqi civilian who was imprisoned and allegedly tortured in an Iraq prison filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against two defense contractors—CACI (and its wholly owned subsidiary, collectively known as “CACI Defendants”) and L-3—and a named individual who allegedly worked for CACI as a screener and interro…
EDUCATION
Bedi v. United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce

1:25-cv-03837 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges congressional action taken against Northwestern University. On April 9, 2025, the plaintiffs – two clinical professors of law at Northwestern University – filed suit against three government defendants – the  U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce, and two U.S. House Member in their capacity as Committee Chair and Subcommittee Chair respectively – and three nominal defendants – Northwestern University, the President of Northwestern University,…

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

Closed Date: May 22, 2025

This case challenges the second Trump Administration's transfer of immigrant detainees from the United States to the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) Prior to this lawsuit, President Trump said he wanted to use Guantánamo’s 30,000 beds “to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people” (reported here), and on January 29, 2025, he issued a m…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Suri v. Trump

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

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the retaliatory detention and attempted deportation of a noncitizen allegedly targeted for his constitutionally protected speech and familial associations. On March 18, 2025, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and Georgetown University postdoctoral scholar, filed a habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, challenging his sudden immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Represented by the ACLU of Virgi…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

Affirmed