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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

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hernandez v. Noem

1:25-cv-02344 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 21, 2025

This case challenged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use of I-220A as a release mechanism.  The plaintiffs in this case are three Cuban nationals who were apprehended while entering the United States and processed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Under Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the plaintiffs were subject to mandatory detention until the conclusion of their removal proceedings. The plaintiffs allege that ICE unlawfully deviated fr…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

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
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

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

This immigration case involved the United States government’s forcible separation of over 2,000 asylum-seeking families who arrived at the southern border without documentation. On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Hom…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

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

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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

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
National Treasury Employees Union v. Trump

1:25-cv-00935 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 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). In connection with the EO, the Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Manage…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted