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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Suri v. Trump

1:25-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

This case concerns the retaliatory detention and attempted deportation of a noncitizen allegedly targeted for his constitutionally protected speech and familial associations. On March 18, 2025, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and Georgetown University postdoctoral scholar, filed a habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, challenging his sudden immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Represented by the ACLU of Virgi…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Ritchie v. Polis

2020CV31708 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: May 18, 2020

Closed Date: July 1, 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 September 01, 2020, On May 15, 2020, the Governor issued an executive order to temporarily suspend requirements that govern ballot issue petitions to minimize the risks of COVID-19. The Order suspends certain provisions from Title 1, Article 40 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, including one that requires a petition circu…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

Reversed

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

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chicago Headline Club v. Noem

1:25-cv-12173 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2025

This case was brought by journalists and peaceful protesters who were shot with rubber bullets and pepper sprayed by federal law enforcement officers outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, which the Trump Administration has been using as a staging ground for federal troops and ICE agents. Plaintiffs allege they were subjected to brutality and arrest despite presenting no threat to the federal officers, protesting peacefully, or being clearly marked as journalists.  On October 6, 2025,…

Case Is Ongoing

EDUCATION
National Council of Nonprofits v. McMahon

1:25-cv-13242 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On November 3, 2025, plaintiffs, including the National Council of Nonprofits and various cities and counties, filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They allege that Defendants have now promulgated a Rule that purports to allow the Secretary of Education to selectively disqualify employers from participation in Public Service Loan Forgiveness on the Secretary’s determi…

Case Is Ongoing

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-13165 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2025

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On October 28, 2025, twenty-six states, the District of Columbia, and two governors sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Secretary Brooke Rollins, OMB, and Director Russell Vought for suspending SNAP benefits for November 2025 during a federal government shutdown. Plaintiffs argued this suspension was unprecedented and illegal, as Congress has never before allowed SNAP benefits to lapse during a funding gap, and USDA still poss…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chiles v. Salazar

1:22-cv-02287 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2022

This case raises a free speech challenge to the Colorado state ban on conversion therapy for viewpoint discrimination. The question raised is whether the First Amendment bars states from imposing discipline on health care providers for providing treatment to children that the legislature has reasonably determined to fall below the professional standard of care. In March 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.  On September 5, 2022, Kelly Chiles – a licensed counselor within Colora…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Pending in Supreme Court

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.G.M.L. v. Kristi Noem

1:25-cv-02942 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2025

This case followed media reports revealing the Trump administration's plans to summarily deport hundreds of Guatemalan minors. At 1:02am on August 31, 2025, ten Guatemalan unaccompanied minors (ages 10–17), represented by the National Immigration Law Center, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated children. The suit named multiple federal agencies and their respective leaders, including the Department of Homela…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
City of Seattle v. Trump

2:25-cv-01435 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 31, 2025

This case challenged provisions of Executive Order No. 14173 (the "Anti-Diversity Order") and Executive Order No. 14168 (the "Gender Order"), which imposed new conditions on recipients of federal contracts and grants. The City of Seattle contended that the Executive Orders unlawfully imposed vague conditions on federal funding, thereby jeopardizing essential municipal services such as transportation, housing, and public safety by threatening to withhold funds based on policies promoting diversi…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Swanson v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-00020 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2022

On February 5, 2021, a pro se individual (“Plaintiff”) filed a Complaint against the State of Georgia (“Defendant”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Plaintiff alleged that the January 2021 runoff election of Georgia’s two United States Senators was unconstitutional and void. Specifically, Plaintiff argued that Defendant could not impose upon Plaintiff Defendant’s duty to select Georgia’s United States Senators, and Plaintiff had no constitutional authori…