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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

This case is one of several challenging a January 20, 2025, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy (outlined in a document termed the “Huffman Memorandum”) that rescinded the Federal Government’s longstanding policy not to conduct immigration enforcement in “protected areas,” such as churches and schools. The previous policy, outlined in a 2021 DHS memorandum, had specified that agents were to refrain, to the fullest extent possible, from engaging in law enforcement actions near or i…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Pending

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Washington v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

6:25-cv-01748 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 26, 2025, plaintiffs brought this suit, alleging that through threatening letters and coercive terms and conditions, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is attempting to force Plaintiff States to rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students. Specifically, HHS seeks to forbid even a passing mention of inclusive gender identity in the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and th…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
President and Fellows of Harvard College v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:25-cv-11048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 21, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s 2025 suspension and termination of federal funding to Harvard University in response to alleged antisemitism on campus Harvard filed this lawsuit on April 21, 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The University was represented by private counsel. The University named the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, the…

Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
President and Fellows of Harvard College v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:25-cv-11048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 21, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s 2025 suspension and termination of federal funding to Harvard University in response to alleged antisemitism on campus Harvard filed this lawsuit on April 21, 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The University was represented by private counsel. The University named the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, the…

Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors - Harvard Faculty Chapter v. U.S. Department Of Justice

1:25-cv-10910 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 11, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s 2025 suspension and termination of federal funding to Harvard University in response to alleged antisemitism on campus. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.)  On April 11, 2025, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), its Harvard Faculty Chapter (AAUP–Harvard), and the United Auto Workers (UAW) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Di…

Judgment for Plaintiff

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force v. Reynolds

4:23-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2023

The Iowa governor signed SF 496 into law on May 26, 2023. SF 496 includes an Age-Appropriate Standard, an Identity and Orientation Prohibition, a Library Restriction provision (together, the Book Restriction provisions), and a Parental Notice provision. The Age-Appropriate Standard dictates that school libraries must contain “only age-appropriate materials” which cannot include “any material with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” SF 496 defines sex act broadly and does not accoun…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Thakur v. Trump

3:25-cv-04737 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This case is about the alleged unlawful termination, suspension, or reduction of federal research grants to University of California researchers under a series of executive orders issued by President Trump and directives from the Department of Governmental Ethics (DOGE). On June 4, 2025, a group of University of California researchers, faculty, staff, academic appointees, and employees filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Pre…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Illinois Baptist State Association v. Illinois Department of Insurance

2020MR000325 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: June 10, 2020

This case is about a challenge to an Illinois law requiring health insurance policies to provide coverage for abortions. On June 10, 2020, the Illinois Baptist State Association, two Illinois corporations–Southland Smiles, Ltd. and Rock River Cartage, Inc.–and two Illinois residents filed suit against the Illinois Department of Insurance and its Director (collectively, the “Illinois Department of Insurance” or “IDOI”)) in state trial court. The plaintiffs sought judicial review of the state’s R…

Judgment for Defendant

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Hassan v. Reese

2:25-cv-01139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 30, 2025

This case concerned alleged unequal access to religious accommodations for Muslim inmates in Oregon prisons. On June 30, 2025, three Muslim inmates filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Pendleton Division, against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). The plaintiffs, represented by Public Accountability and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), brought two claims. First, they alleged disparate holiday accommodations under the Equal Protection …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Christian Employers Alliance v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1:25-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2025

This case is about two actions by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding gender identity and accommodations for abortion in the workplace. First, the EEOC published requirements and guidance on gender identity discrimination in the workplace. Specifically, the EEOC stated that discrimination based on gender identity constituted sex discrimination in violation of Title VII, and indicated that actions by an employer like misgendering, deadnaming, and unequal ba…

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