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POLICING
Mills v. District of Columbia

1:08-cv-01061 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 20, 2008

Closed Date: June 4, 2011

(This summary is temporary while we research this case)/ This case is about the neighborhood safety zone (NSZ) program created by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Washington, D.C. in an attempt to curb local instances of violence in the city's Trinidad neighborhood. Plaintiffs Caneisha Mills, Linda Leaks, and Sarah Sloan filed this lawsuit in federal district court in the District of Columbia under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that they were denied entry at NSZ checkpoints on account of …

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Reversed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed this lawsuit on April 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff claimed that t…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Womens Life Care Center v. Ellison

0:24-cv-04250 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 2024

Closed Date: Aug. 27, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On November 11, 2024, Women’s Life Care Center, on behalf of itself and its patients; National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), on behalf of it and its member clinics, and Minnesota women who had received abortions filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. These plaintiffs sued a number of Minnesota officials, including the Attorney General and Governor, as well as Planned Parenthood branches, for thei…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Griffin-Valade

6:24-cv-01783 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2024

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On October 23, 2024, Plaintiffs Judicial Watch, Inc., the Constitution Party of Oregon (“Constitution Party”), Suni Danforth, and Hannah Shipman filed this complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Oregon Secretary of State and the State of Oregon (“Defendants”). Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to compel Defendants to comply with their voter list maintenance obligations under Section 8 of the National Vo…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Los Angeles Press Club v. City of Los Angeles

2:25-cv-05423 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 16, 2025

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). In June 2025, the Los Angeles Press Club ("LAPC") sued the City of Los Angeles in federal court. LAPC alleged that the City had violated its members First Amendment rights, as well as state law, by using excessive force against journalists during protests. The case is ongoing.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
B. (PS) v. Aber

1:25-cv-02763 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 3, 2025, Plaintiffs, women who were once in custody at the La Plata County Jail, all of whom are over the age of eighteen, filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. According to their complaint, at Defendant La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith’s direction, every woman entering the La Plata County Jail is forced to strip naked and endure visual and physical penetration on camera. Allegedly…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Richwine v. Matuszak

1:23-cv-00370 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2023

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On August 30, 2023, Plaintiffs Lauren Richwine and Death Done Differently LLC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana to vindicate their First Amendment rights. The complaint alleges that beginning in 2021, the State of Indiana began investigating Richwine’s business under Indiana’s Embalmers and Funeral Directors Laws. Though Richwine did not hold herself out as a licensed funeral director or engage in the t…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Affirmed

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Revolution Wind, LLC v. Burgum

1:25-cv-02999 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2025

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) On September 4, 2025, Revolution Wind, LLC - the developer of an offshore wind project off Rhode Island and Connecticut - sued the Department of the Interior, Secretary Douglas J. Burgum, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), and their leadership in official capacities for for declaratory and injunctive relief in the district court for the District of Columbia. Weeks prior, BOEM ha…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Trump

1:25-cv-02990 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2025

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On September 3, 2025, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), representing nearly 160,000 federal employees across 37 agencies, sued President Trump as well as the Director of OPM and the Acting Director of PTO to challenge EO 14343 (Further Exclusions Order, August 28, 2025). The EO relied on statutory authority (5 U.S.C. § 7103(b)(1)) permitting exclusions only where an agency’s “primary function” is intelligence, counterintellige…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
District of Columbia v. Trump

1:25-cv-03005 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2025

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about President Trump’s deployment of more than 2,200 National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., where they are conducting armed patrols, searches, seizures, and arrests under federal command without the Mayor’s consent. On September 4, 2025, on behalf of the District of Columbia, Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued President Trump in his official capacity, as well as the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense Peter Heg…

Case Is Ongoing