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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Trump v. Murdoch

1:25-cv-23232 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 18, 2025

On July 18, 2025, President Donald Trump brought this suit against Dow Jones & Company, Rupert Murdoch, and their respective media holdings in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Trump alleged Defendants Safdar and Palazzolo had co-authored and published an article falsely claiming that Trump had sent a letter containing a drawing of a nude woman to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Filing as a private citizen through his counsel, Trump claimed defamation per se and defa…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Khalil v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

1:25-cv-02079 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

This case challenged Columbia University’s disclosure of student disciplinary records and compliance with federal government demands aimed at suppressing pro-Palestine speech and political advocacy on campus. On March 13, 2025, Columbia students Mahmoud Khalil and seven pseudonymous co-plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Columbia University, university trustees, and multiple federal government defendants, including the House Committee o…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mahdawi v. Trump

2:25-cv-00389 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

This case concerns a lawful permanent resident who was arrested and detained while attending a naturalization interview by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in retaliation for his outspoken criticism and protest of Israel’s military actions in Gaza. On April 14, 2025, Mohsen Mahdawi filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, challenging his detention. Mahdawi—who has lived in the U.S. for over a decade, is a recent student of Colum…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Gordon v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-02409 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

On July 24, 2025, three former federal employees filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Executive Office of the President, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, the Department of Justice, and the United States. Plaintiffs alleged that they were unlawfully terminated without cause or due process, notwithstanding long-standing, exemplary service in various DOJ roles, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Fifth Amendment. The plaintiffs cha…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National Association of Immigration Judges v. Neal

1:20-cv-00731 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 1, 2020

This case challenged a policy of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) which placed restrictions on immigration judges who wish to speak or write publicly in their personal capacities about certain topics. The 2017 policy imposed a preapproval requirement on all immigration judges who wished to speak at public events in their personal capacities. The 2020 policy, which replaced the 2017 policy, said that immigration judges were prohibited from speaking in their personal capacities …

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Reversed

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
E.K. v. Department of Defense Education Activity

1:25-cv-00637 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

This is a case about the censorship of books and curricula in federally operated schools for military families.  During the first weeks of his second term, President Trump issued a series of executive orders aimed at reshaping educational content in federally operated schools. On January 22, 2025, he signed Executive Order 14168, titled “Combating Gender Ideology in Federal Education,” which prohibited federally funded schools from including materials that “promote gender transition, nonbinary …

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Illinois

3:25-cv-01691 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2025

This lawsuit by the Trump Administration (through the Department of Justice) challenges Illinois statutes that allow certain non-citizens not lawfully present in the United States to be treated as state residents for postsecondary purposes, granting them  in-state tuition rates and other postsecondary education benefits unavailable to out-of-state U.S. citizens. The federal goverrnment filed it on September 2, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against the St…

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Shilling v. Trump

2:25-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025 executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military, which reverses the U.S. Armed Forces’ policy of permitting transgender people who meet military standards to serve. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to trans-related actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 27, 2025, a week after his inauguration, President Trump signed Executive Order 1…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Moe v. Trump

1:25-cv-00653 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's implementation of an Executive Order targeting transgender individuals by denying them legal recognition under federal law. The plaintiff, a transgender woman incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She sued President Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney General, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff sought emergency declaratory and injunctive r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Department of Defense

8:25-cv-02947 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2025

This case is about the Department of Defense’s removal of medically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender adolescents and young adults under TRICARE. Said removal was made pursuant to EO 14168. On September 8th, 2025, several anonymous transgender young adults along with their parents filed this suit in the District of Maryland against the Department of Defense and several key officials, challenging the sudden removal of coverage for gender affirming care under the U.S. military's hea…

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