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Elev8 Baltimore, Inc. v. Corporation for National and Community Service

1:25-cv-01458 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

This case challenged the alleged dismantling of AmeriCorps by the defendants through program closures, funding withdrawals, and staff layoffs. AmeriCorps is the federal agency administering national service and volunteer programs. AmeriCorps is run by a Board of Directors and a Chief Executive Officer. AmeriCorps’ Board members and its CEO are all appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. AmeriCorps comprises multiple statutorily required programs, five of which are …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Widakuswara v. Lake

1:25-cv-01015 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

This case challenges the grant terminations and the placing of journalists on administrative leave from the United States Agency for Global Media. On March 14, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14238 entitled “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” 90 Fed. Reg. 13043, which directed that the "non-statutory components and functions" of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”  USAGM is an indepe…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Perlmutter v. Blanche

1:25-cv-01659 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 22, 2025

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s removal of Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office and the installation of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting Librarian of Congress. On May 22, 2025, Shira Perlmutter filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Todd Blanche, Paul Perkins (purported acting Register), Sergio Gor (Director, White House Presidential Personnel Office), Trent Morse (Deputy Director, White …

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Reversed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Washington v. United States Department of Commerce

2:25-cv-01507 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2025

This case challenges the termination of over $9 million in federal funding to Washington State by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The first grant was for "Tribal Stewards: Cultivating Tribal Leadership & Equity in Natural Resource Stewardship & Climate Resilience" and was awarded to the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges to train a new generation of tribal leaders and co-stewards in natural resource ma…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
New Mexico v. Musk

1:25-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

This lawsuit challenges Elon Musk’s role in the second Trump administration, asserting that he performed significant governmental duties without official nomination by the President or confirmation by the Senate. On February 13, 2025, fourteen states—New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington—represented by their respective attorneys general, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Cou…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harper v. Bessent

1:25-cv-01294 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's removal of two members of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). On April 28, 2025, NCUA Chairman Todd Harper and board member Tanya Otsuka filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Secretary of the Treasury, the Executive Director of the NCUA, the new Chairman of the NCUA, the Deputy Assistant to President Trump, and President Trump himself. Todd Harper was appointed for a partial term to the NCUA du…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harris v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00412 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's termination of a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board. On February 11, 2025, Cathy Harris, a duly appointed/confirmed Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She sued President Trump, the Secretary of Treasury, the Acting Chairman of the Merit System Protection Board, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Director and Deputy …

Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Texas v. Mayorkas

2:22-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

This case concerns Texas' challenge of a 2022 Department of Homeland Security Interim Final Rule (IFR) allowing asylum officers to accept or reject migrants' claims for humanitarian protections soon after they cross the border. According to Texas, the IFR transferred significant adjudicatory authority from immigration judges to asylum officers. 87 Fed. Reg. 18,078. On April 28, 2022, the State of Texas filed suit against (1) the United States, (2) President Biden, and (3) various federal agenci…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Does 1-26 v. Musk

8:25-cv-00462 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

This case challenged Elon Musk’s role in the Trump Administration as well as the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”). On February 13, 2025, twenty-six current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the District of Maryland against DOGE and U.S. DOGE Services, seeking relief under Ex Parte Young. Represented by the State Democracy Defenders Fund and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that th…

Administrative Stay Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Immigrant Legal Resource Center v. Wolf

4:20-cv-05883 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2020

This case is about the legality of a rule change proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and set to go into effect October 2, 2020. The Final Rule (specifically, the USCIS Fee Schedule & Changes to Certain Other Immigration Benefit Request Requirements, 85 Fed. Reg. 46,788) increased the cost of applying for immigration benefits, including naturalization and asylum. The plaintiffs, eight non-profit organizations that provide a variety of services for low-income applicants for imm…