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American Federation of Government Employees v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget

3:25-cv-08302 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

This is a lawsuit by several labor organizations challenging the Trump administration’s directives to issue reductions in force during the federal government shutdown.   Plaintiffs include the American Federal of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union of federal employees, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest trade union of public employees in the United States, and two California-based labor organizations. They filed this lawsuit on Se…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Macmasters v. Department of Defense

1:25-cv-02162 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

On July 7, 2025, an American veteran filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Plaintiff challenged the Department's restrictions on his ability to publish an unclassified manuscript entitled "Three Faces of War". He alleged that Defendant's actions violated his rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Plaintiff submitted his manuscript, pursuant to one or more secrecy, non-disclosure agreements, t…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Oversight v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-02390 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

This case challenges DHS’s failure to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests related to the Executive Order’s revival of the Alien Registration Act. On his first day of his second term, President Trump signed Executive Order 14159, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” directing the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that all previously unregistered non-citizens comply with the Alien Registration Act of 1940, also known as the Smith…

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

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. Hendry County School District

1:70-cv-01069 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 17, 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2025

This was a lawsuit challenging the operation of a dual school system based on race in Hendry County, Florida. Originally filed on July 17, 1970, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, proceedings in the case included a preliminary order, in 1970, requiring conversion from a dual to a unitary school system, a permanent injunction, issued in 1975, prohibiting operation of a dual school system and requiring the district to take certain actions to prevent segregation and t…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

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

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
Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

2:25-cv-00781 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

This lawsuit challenges the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle—via mass layoffs and office closures—the Head Start program, a Congressionally-established federal program that provides young children of low-income families “a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs.” Since its launch in 1965, Head Start has “successfully improved the educational, health, social, and economic outcomes for families and children, particularly Black…

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

April 28, 2025

Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

May 13, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy Jr.

May 16, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order/To Postpone Effective Date of Agency Action

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy

July 21, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order/ To Postpone Effective Date of Agency Action

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy

July 21, 2025

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Preliminary Injunction Granted

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

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