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CHILD WELFARE
Wyatt B. v. Brown

6:19-cv-00556 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 16, 2019

On April 16, 2019, ten children in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Oregon, the Director of the Oregon Department of Child Welfare, and ODHS, along with its director, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131(2)), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC § 794), the Adoption Assistance Pro…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kaimowitz v. Supervisor of Elections

1:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

This is a case about Florida’s judicial election system and whether excluding unopposed judicial candidates from ballots violates voting rights. On July 15, 2016, the plaintiff, a disbarred attorney proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Gainesville Division. The plaintiff sued the Supervisor of Elections for Alachua County, John Harkness (Florida Bar executive director), Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Inc. (“EJC…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Bland v. Bondi

1:25-cv-03499 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 30, 2025, plaintiffs, individuals sentenced to death in Tennessee, sued the U.S. Department of Justice for transferring decision-making authority from Article III courts to the Attorney General and authorized the Attorney General to “certify” that a State satisfies Chapter 154 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Plaintiffs asserted that once Congress grants the federal courts jurisdiction—as it has in…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Escobar Molina v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-03417 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2025

Closed Date: Dec. 29, 2003

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 25, 2025, plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit against the Trump administration for Defendants’ policy and practice of making immigration arrests without a warrant and without probable cause having sown terror in Latino and other communities across the District of Columbia and violating unequivocal statutory restrictions on warrantless arrests. This case is ongoing.
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. Noem

1:25-cv-08106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On October 1, 2025 Plaintiff the State of New York seeks to stop Defendants in the Trump administration from cutting this funding for the purpose of punishing New York State for its policy decision not to devote its limited sovereign law enforcement resources to supplement the federal government’s civil immigration enforcement. This case is ongoing.

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
County of Santa Clara v. Noem

3:25-cv-08330 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research this case.] On September 30, 2025, plaintiffs, local government entities, filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California against the Trump administration. Plaintiffs allege that for the first time in the 75-year history of Congress’s financial support for state and local governments’ disaster preparedness, mitigation, and recovery, the Executive Branch has now determined to use this critical federal funding as a cudgel, thre…

Case Is Ongoing

EDUCATION
Council for Opportunity in Education v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-03514 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 30, 2025, Council for Opportunity in Education filed suit against U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiff alleges that the DOE has taken aim at thousands of low-income, first-generation college students and 60-year old grant programs designed to help this group of students that are so frequently left behind. The DOE elected not to continue dozens of grants that were not…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Venegas v. Homan

1:25-cv-00397 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 30, 2025, this class action suit was filed against the Trump government's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policies that grant federal immigration officers sweeping search and seizure powers that, plaintiff claims, violate the Fourth Amendment and exceed officers’ statutory and regulatory powers. Plaintiff alleges dragnet raids have been occurring on construction sites throughout this District. The officers rarely (if eve…

Case Is Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Betances v. Fischer

1:11-cv-03200 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 2011

On May 11, 2011, three individuals given extrajudicial sentences of post-release supervision filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The named defendants were the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and the New York State Division of Parole (DOP). They claimed that the defendants administratively assigned sentences of post-release supervision (PRS) and that only a judge could impose an additio…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Luevano v. Ezell

1:79-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 1979

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2025

This is a long-standing case about equal employment in the federal civil service. The case was originally brought in 1979 by nonprofit counsel against the then Director of the Officer of Personnel Management (OPM) as a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The applicants had filed suit, claiming that the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE) violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Plaintiffs alleged that PACE, …

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)