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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

This case concerned protection of taxpayer privacy rights against immigration enforcement policies. On March 7, 2025, the Washington Post published an article indicating that the Department of Homeland Security was seeking taxpayer data from the Internal Revenue Service, including Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) for immigration enforcement purposes. The IRS had initially refused to release ITIN information. However, after Melanie Krause was appointed Acting Commissioner on Fe…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Pending

POLICING
State of Illinois v. Noem

1:25-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) decision to reduce grant award amounts to at least eight states. The plaintiff states allege the Administration reduced these awards because they refused to deploy their local law enforcement to assist in enforcing federal immigration laws.  On September 29, 2025, 11 states and Washington DC sued DHS and FEMA regarding cuts that dramatically reduced their grant aw…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Washington v. United States Department of Commerce

2:25-cv-01507 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2025

This case challenged the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) termination of two federal awards providing more than $9 million in funding to the State of Washington. The first grant, "Tribal Stewards: Cultivating Tribal Leadership & Equity in Natural Resource Stewardship & Climate Resilience," awarded to the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, supported training for a new generation of tribal leaders and co-…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
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

This case challenged a FOIA denial regarding information about federal agencies' reductions in force and reorganization plans. On February 11, 2025, President Trump released an Executive Order, "Implementing the President’s 'Department of Government Efficiency' Workforce Optimization Initiative." This Order directed agencies to eliminate “waste, bloat, and insularity” in their agency by initiating “large-scale reductions in force” (RIFs). This was followed by a memorandum issued by the Office o…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

LABOR RIGHTS
American Foreign Service Association v. Trump

1:25-cv-01030 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 7, 2025

This case is one of several challenging Executive Order 14251, issued by President Trump on March 27, 2025. The order excluded numerous agencies and subdivisions—designated as having primary national security functions—from the collective bargaining protections afforded under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute and the Foreign Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (collectively, the FSLMRS). Section 3 of the Executive Order specifically excluded employees of certain “age…

Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. United States Department of the Interior

2:25-cv-00657 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2025

This case challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2019 approval of nearly 125,000 acres for potash mining in Utah’s secluded West Desert, known as the Sevier Playa Potash (SPP) Project, along with the agency’s subsequent 2025 approval of a modified version of the SPP Project. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), a non-profit environmental membership organization dedicated to preserving wilderness and wild places in Utah, first filed suit in 2023, challenging the 2019 approval …

Case Is Ongoing

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

This case challenged the Trump Administration's attempt to shrink the workforce in several federal agencies. On February 12, 2025, the National Treasury Employees Union; National Federation of Federal Employees, AFL-CIO; International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO; International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO; and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America filed this lawsuit in the U.S.…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

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
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

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s firing of "probationary" employees for pretextual reasons. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On February 23, Elon Musk posted a message on X that said: "Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Fail…

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

Feb. 19, 2025

Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause

American Federation of Government Employees v. United States office of Personnel Management

Feb. 23, 2025

First Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Releif

American Federation of Government Employees v. United States office of Personnel Management

Feb. 23, 2025

Defendants’ Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to Show Cause; Memorandum of Points and Authorities

American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

Feb. 26, 2025

Reply in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause

American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

Feb. 26, 2025

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Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief 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

Closed Date: Sept. 24, 2025

This is a challenge to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) “Fork in the Road” email on January 28, 2025, which was sent to nearly all federal employees and announced a "deferred resignation" program. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 28, 2025, OPM sent an email entitled “Fork in the Road” to nearly all federal career employees. The email announced a purported "deferred re…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Pending