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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Deep South Today v. Murrill

3:24-cv-00623 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 31, 2024

On July 31, 2024, a coalition of Louisiana journalists and national news organizations (collectively, the news organizations) filed suit against the Louisiana Attorney General, the State Police Superintendent, and the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. On May 24, 2024, Louisiana had enacted Act 259 (HB 173), which made it a criminal offense to “knowingly or intentionally approach within twenty-five feet of a peace officer w…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
John L. v. Adams

3:88-cv-00924 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 1988

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2008

John L., a juvenile whose last name is unknown, brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 through his next friend Andrew J. Shookhoff of the Vanderbilt Legal Clinic on November 7, 1988. Legal Services of South Central Tennessee also provided counsel for the plaintiff. The plaintiff was 17 years old when he filed the suit alleging that he was being denied the right of access to the courts. At the time, plaintiff was incarcerated in the Taft Youth Center in Pikeville, Tennessee, a s…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc v. Bureau of Land Management

4:25-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: March 5, 2025

On March 5, 2025, BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc., Sage Riders Motorcycle Club, and an individual plaintiff who was a member of both groups filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. The case was assigned to Judge David O. Nuffer. They named the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of the Interior as Defendants. The Plaintiffs challenged the route closures established by Defendants' approval of the San Rafael Travel Management Plan/Final Environment…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Universities v. Department of Energy

1:25-cv-10912 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's Department of Energy (DOE) "policy flash" on April 11, 2025, which set a universal cap on indirect funding costs for institutions of higher education. Previously, the DOE dispersed funds based on both direct and indirect expenses already incurred by the institutions in the research process. Direct costs are those readily traceable to a specific project, while indirect costs are those that support multiple research projects. These indirect costs in…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-11816 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 24, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's cancellation of numerous previously awarded federal grants to the plaintiffs under a rule promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in 2024 that allows the termination of grants "if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.” In February 2025, President Trump ordered agencies "to review all existing covered contracts and grants and, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law, terminate or modify…

Case Is Ongoing

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States of America v. State of Vermont

2:25-cv-00463 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

This case is about the State of Vermont's Climate Superfund Act (State Act) which aims to hold fossil fuel businesses liable for climate change adaptation projects. The State Act imposes retroactive, strict liability on companies that have extracted or refined over one billion metric tons of greenhouse gases worldwide.  On May 1, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. The Plaintiffs, the United States and the Environmental Protection A…

Case Is Ongoing

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Protect Our Coast NJ v. US

3:25-cv-06890 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 3, 2025

This case challenged the May 2025 decision of the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to resume work on wind turbines off the coasts of New York and New Jersey. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), BOEM’s parent agency had paused construction of the turbines a month earlier, in connection with President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order requiring DOI to investigate all offshore wind energy projects and ascertain whether they would cause harm to the environment …

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Blue v. Lockhart

5:84-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Closed Date: March 27, 2024

On December 5, 1984, a prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arkansas Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that prison officials had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion. The parties entered into a consent decree. On April 16, 1992 the plaintiff asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt, claiming that they had violated the consent d…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Appalachian Voices v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-01982 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 25, 2025

On January 20, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was told to stop dispersing $3 billion through the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant program. The Environmental and Climate Justice Grant program (Grant Program) was funded in 2022 through the Inflation Reduction Act. Congress intended for Grant Program funds to flow to “disadvantaged communities.” The EPA, as administrator of the Grant Program, awarded funds to nonprofits, schools, tribes and local governments to fund e…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

EDUCATION
Victim Rights Law Center v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-11042 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 21, 2025

This case challenged the reduction-in-force (RIF) of the Office of Civil Rights by the Department of Education. On March 11, 2025, the Department of Education announced a massive RIF that reduced its workforce by almost half, including more than half of the workforce in the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). The Department also closed seven of OCR's twelve regional offices, terminating all employees who worked in those offices. On April 21, 2025, Victim Rights Law Center, a nonprofit organization se…

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