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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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
L. W. v. Skrmetti

3:23-cv-00376 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 20, 2023

Case Ongoing

On March 2, 2023, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender patients under the age of 18. Specifically, Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) prohibited any “medical procedure” from being performed “for the purpose of . . .[e]nabling a minor to identify with” a gender identity different from the sex they were designated at birth or “[t]reating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” SB1 ad…
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

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to circumvent removal procedures and order the immediate removal of Venezuelan nationals from the United States. On March 15, 2025, five detained Venezuelan nationals filed this class action lawsuit in the District …
POLICING
Bledsoe v. Willis

5:21-cv-04367 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case challenged what it alleged was a malicious prosecution following a blatantly deficient police investigation and alleged wrongful arrest without probable cause. On December 21, 2021, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He sued the Shreveport Police Department and the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the ACLU of Louisiana and private counsel, the plaintiff alleged that the District A…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Viloria Aviles v. Trump

2:25-cv-00611 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On April 3, 2025, a Venezuelan citizen detained in Nevada and represented by the University of Nevada Las Vegas Immigration Clinic filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. He challenged the government’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to depo…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Visual Arts Collective, LLC v. Powell

1:16-cv-00414 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2016

Closed Date: March 12, 2018

This is a case about the application of the First Amendment to burlesque performances. When this lawsuit was filed (in 2016), Idaho had a state regulation (I.C. § 23-614) prohibiting liquor licensees from allowing female nudity or simulated sexual activity regardless of artistic context. In March 2016, undercover officers from the Idaho State Police attended a burlesque performance at Visual Arts Collective (“VAC”), a contemporary fine art gallery and performance venue. The state then initiated…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zinski v. Liberty University, Inc.

6:24-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 29, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case alleging that Liberty University discriminated against a transgender employee. On July 29, 2024, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit against her former employer, Liberty University, in the United States District Court for the Western District Court of Virginia. The plaintiff alleged that after she came out to her employer as transgender, the University terminated her employment and cited her transgender status as the reason. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU of Virginia, t…
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

This case challenges the removal of medical articles from federal government websites. On March 12, 2025, two doctors filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They named the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and their corresponding agency heads as Defendants. The Plaintiffs published peer-reviewed articles on a government-run patient safety website (PSNet),…
EDUCATION
Malick v. Croswell-Lexington District Schools

2:22-cv-11126 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs in this case alleged that their daughter’s school failed to adequately protect her from anti-Black harassment and bullying. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs filed suit against the Croswell-Lexington School District and the district school board in the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Michigan on May 23, 2022. The plaintiffs sued under 42 USC § 1983 (based on alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses), …
EDUCATION
Austin v. Lamb

1:25-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Florida's Senate Bill 266, which bans public universities from spending state or federal money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and bans courses that teach “identity politics” or “distort significant historical events.” On January 16, 2026, six professors from Florida’s public universities—represented by the ACLU of Florida and private counsel—filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against the Florida Board of Gover…