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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
African Communities Together v. Lyons

1:25-cv-06366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2025

This case challenges the Trump Administration's campaign of arresting noncitizens at immigration court proceedings, and its summary dismissal of immigration cases without affording noncitizens the opportunity to seek asylum or other affirmative relief. The case was filed on August 1, 2025, by African Communities Together (ACT) and The Door in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Acting Director; the Secretar…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Universities v. National Science Foundation

1:25-cv-11231 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

This case raises a challenge to cuts in government funding for university research. On May 5, 2025, 13 public and private universities and three associations of universities sued the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its acting director in the District of Massachusetts, challenging cuts to "indirect cost rates" for NSF-funded research grant formulas. While direct costs are those directly attributable to a specific project, indirect costs are costs necessary for research but are not directly…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Dismissed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Vera Institute of Justice v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-01643 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2025

Closed Date: July 7, 2025

This case challenges the Trump Administration’s abrupt termination of hundreds of federal grants in April 2025. On May 21, 2025, five nonprofits filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Justice, the Attorney General, and the Office of Justice Programs and its acting head. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants' actions exceeded their executive authority and violated the Due Process Clause, the Take Care Clause, and the Ad…

Class Action Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Vera Institute of Justice v. U.S. Department of Justice

May 21, 2025

Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification

Vera Institute of Justice v. U.S. Department of Justice

May 21, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Vera Institute of Justice v. U.S. Department of Justice

May 22, 2025

Amicus Curiae Brief of Washington, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Rhode Island in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Vera Institute of Justice v. U.S. Department of Justice

June 6, 2025

Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification

Vera Institute of Justice v. U.S. Department of Justice

June 9, 2025

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Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors v. Trump

3:25-cv-07864 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2025

This case is about the Trump administration’s termination of federal grants to the University of California system and the administration’s withholding of federal funding and grants to incentivize universities to eradicate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their campuses. This case is substantially related to Thakur et al v. Trump et al.  On September 16, 2025, labor unions and associations that represent faculty, students, and academic employees throughout the University of California Sy…

Case Is Ongoing

POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-02279 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 16, 2025

This case challenges a coordinated set of federal immigration enforcement policies—referred to as a “campaign” of courthouse arrests—that authorize arrests in immigration courts, the abrupt dismissal of removal proceedings, and the placement of noncitizens into expedited removal. These policies are allegedly intended to deprive noncitizens of their rights by subjecting them to immediate arrest and removal while attending or appearing in court. On July 16, 2025, Immigrant Advocates Response Coll…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.M. v. Larose

3:25-cv-01412 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This case challenged the federal government’s alleged use of expedited removal proceedings against noncitizens arrested at federal courthouses in San Diego, without due process or access to counsel. On June 4, 2025, a Moroccan national who identifies as Western Sahrawi filed this class-action habeas corpus petition and civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Represented by private immigration counsel, The plaintiff sought relief on behalf of himself 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

POLICING
United States of America v. City of Minneapolis

0:25-cv-00048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …

Administrative Stay Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-01096 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

Closed Date: June 17, 2025

This case challenged the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to terminate plaintiffs’ environmental grants without notice or substantive reason. These grants, awarded in 2024 under the Biden Administration, comprised $8 million given directly to each plaintiff and access to a further $52 million for plaintiffs to distribute among other community-based environmental initiatives in their respective cities. In February 2025—under the Trump Administration—plaintiffs each received …

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending