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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fight Back Fund v. State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-02791 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of February 25, 2025, The Collective Bargaining Freedom Act became law in Illinois in April 2019. That Act provides that the authority to enact laws / rules restricting the use of union security agreements vests exclusively with the Illinois General Assembly. Plaintiffs support Illinois House Joint Resolution Constitutional A…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's authority to suspend nearly all congressionally-appropriated foreign assistance funding and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). On February 10, 2025, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Journalism Development Network filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. State Department of State, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and USAI…

Administrative Stay Granted

Reversed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Birke v. The 538 Individual Members of the Electoral College

2:16-cv-08432 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2017

On November 14, 2016, Plaintiff, an individual voter, filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the Central District of California. Plaintiff alleged that due to the wide margin between popular votes received by Hillary Clinton and by President-Elect Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential election, the value of each Clinton vote counted as approximately 0.99 of each Trump vote. Plaintiff stated that under the Fifth Amendment, citizens have a fundamental right to have their v…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
State of Rhode Island v. United States Department of the Interior

1:25-cv-00439 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2025

On August 22, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a Stop Work Order to halt construction on the Revolution Wind Project. Starting in 2026, the Revolution Wind Project (Project) was set to power 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island through wind turbines located off the coast. Since 2013, Ørsted, developer of the Project, has worked through regulatory review at the federal and state level. In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a 2,800-page Final Envi…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
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

LABOR RIGHTS
National Association of Agriculture Employees v. Trump

1:25-cv-02657 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2025

This case challenged the second Trump Administration’s Executive Order 14251, “Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs” (Executive Order), which purports to revoke the collective bargaining rights of the Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) organizational unit in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the basis that their primary function constitutes national security work. On August 13, 2025, the National Association of Agriculture Employees (NAAE),  a labor union th…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
American Civil Rights Union v. Rodriguez

7:16-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 4, 2016

This is a case about an Election Administrator’s alleged failure to maintain voter lists and produce records and data related to said efforts, as required under federal law. On March 4, 2016, the American Civil Rights Unions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Starr County Election Administrator under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). Represented by counsel, the plaintiff sought declaratory and…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Paher v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Closed Date: July 31, 2020

This case challenged the Nevada Secretary of State's and County Administrators' plan to conduct an all-mail election for the 2020 primary election in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Three individual residents of Nevada filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on April 21, 2020.  Plaintiffs sued Nevada's Secretary of State and Washoe County's Registrar of Voters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constituti…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Escoffery-Bey v. New York City Board of Election

1:16-cv-03518 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 2016

Closed Date: Nov. 7, 2016

On May 11, 2016, several individuals and an individual trying to be placed on the ballot in New York filed this lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the New York City Board of Elections, alleging several federal constitutional and statutory violations after the Board declined to place a candidate's name on the ballot for the Democratic primary election scheduled for June 28, 2016. The plaintiffs claimed that the rejection was based…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of Illinois

1:25-cv-04811 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2025

This case, brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the second Trump Administration, challenged recent amendments to Illinois' Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act ("Privacy Act"). Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), enacted by Congress in 1986, employers are required to verify the identity and employment authorization of their employees. IRCA created an E-Verify program to help employers access such information. On May 5, 2025, the DOJ brought this lawsuit in the United …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)