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Y-Z-L-H v. Bostock

3:25-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 5, 2025

This is a case about the unlawful arrest and detention of a paroled asylum-seeker. On June 5, 2025, a Mexican national filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He sued the ICE Seattle Field Office Director, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its Acting Director, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, and the Attorney General under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Judge Michael…

Habeas Relief Granted

Appeal Pending

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Department of Transportation

1:25-cv-00996 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 3, 2025

This is a case about the federal government’s failure to respond to public records requests concerning potential rollbacks of vehicle pollution and fuel economy standards. On April 3, 2025, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Represented by private counsel, EDF sought decla…

Case Is Ongoing

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
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

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Dugan

2:25-cr-00089 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case was a highly unusual federal criminal prosecution of a sitting state court judge—who was alleged by the Trump Administration to have interfered with an immigration arrest. On April 24, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin indicted Wisconsin Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on two counts: (1) obstruction of a federal administrative proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1505, and (2) concealment of a person from arrest under 18 U.S.C. § 1071. The case was assigned to U.S. Di…

Case Is Ongoing

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

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

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…
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

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Thakur v. Trump

3:25-cv-04737 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This case is about the alleged unlawful termination, suspension, or reduction of federal research grants to University of California researchers under a series of executive orders issued by President Trump and directives from the Department of Governmental Ethics (DOGE). On June 4, 2025, a group of University of California researchers, faculty, staff, academic appointees, and employees filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Pre…

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