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Democracy Forward Foundation v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-02597 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2025

This case challenged the alleged failure of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Democracy Forward Foundation (DFF), a public-oriented non-profit, submitted FOIA requests to the DOJ and FBI seeking records concerning the Trump Administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein matter, including internal communications and any related agency reviews. On July 28, 2025, DFF submitted a request for ex…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States of America v. Russell

1:25-cv-02029 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 24, 2025

This case was brought by the Trump administration against the District Court of Maryland for automatically issuing a default, temporary stay in habeas immigration petitions. The Trump Administration filed this novel lawsuit on June 24, 2025 which named all 15 active and senior status judges in the district as defendants, as well as the district's court clerk. The suit challenged a standing order issued by Chief Judge George L. Russell III regarding habeas petitions in the district. The recent i…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
M.A.P.S. v. Garite

3:25-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 10, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. This case was also certified related to Sanchez Puentes, et al., v. Garite, et al..  Both cases revolved around the use of the AEA to remove noncitizens in Texas.  This petition arises out of the president's peacetime invocation of the AEA. The petitioner is a 33-year-old Venezuelan national detain…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. Department of State

1:25-cv-01774 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 5, 2025

This case challenged the series of agreements between the Department of State and El Salvador by which El Salvador agreed to accept individuals from the United States and to hold them in detention facilities. This agreement was made on February 3, 2025. Secretary of State Rubio explained that President Bukele of El Salvador “has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, and house them in his j…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Universities v. Department of Energy

1:25-cv-10912 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's Department of Energy (DOE) "policy flash" on April 11, 2025, which set a universal cap on indirect funding costs for institutions of higher education. Previously, the DOE dispersed funds based on both direct and indirect expenses already incurred by the institutions in the research process. Direct costs are those readily traceable to a specific project, while indirect costs are those that support multiple research projects. These indirect costs in…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-11816 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 24, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's cancellation of numerous previously awarded federal grants to the plaintiffs under a rule promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in 2024 that allows the termination of grants "if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.” In February 2025, President Trump ordered agencies "to review all existing covered contracts and grants and, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law, terminate or modify…

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Blue v. Lockhart

5:84-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Closed Date: March 27, 2024

On December 5, 1984, a prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arkansas Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that prison officials had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion. The parties entered into a consent decree. On April 16, 1992 the plaintiff asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt, claiming that they had violated the consent d…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States of America v. State of Vermont

2:25-cv-00463 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

This case is about the State of Vermont's Climate Superfund Act (State Act) which aims to hold fossil fuel businesses liable for climate change adaptation projects. The State Act imposes retroactive, strict liability on companies that have extracted or refined over one billion metric tons of greenhouse gases worldwide.  On May 1, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. The Plaintiffs, the United States and the Environmental Protection A…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Oregon Council for the Humanities v. United States DOGE Service

3:25-cv-00829 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: May 15, 2025

This case challenges the alleged illegal termination of grant money for state and jurisdictional humanities councils by the United States DOGE Service. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was established by Congress in 1965 with the declaration that "The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States". The goal was to provide funding for research, publication of scholarly works, and the promotion of the humanities. Congress also created a statutory framework t…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Protect Our Coast NJ v. US

3:25-cv-06890 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 3, 2025

This case challenged the May 2025 decision of the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to resume work on wind turbines off the coasts of New York and New Jersey. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), BOEM’s parent agency had paused construction of the turbines a month earlier, in connection with President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order requiring DOI to investigate all offshore wind energy projects and ascertain whether they would cause harm to the environment …

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending