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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.G.M.L. v. Kristi Noem

1:25-cv-02942 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2025

This case followed media reports revealing the Trump administration's plans to summarily deport hundreds of Guatemalan minors. At 1:02am on August 31, 2025, ten Guatemalan unaccompanied minors (ages 10–17), represented by the National Immigration Law Center, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated children. The suit named multiple federal agencies and their respective leaders, including the Department of Homela…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
National Religious Broadcasters v. Werfel

6:24-cv-00311 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2024

This case challenged the Johnson Amendment to the Internal Revenue Code, which prohibits nonprofits organized under Section 501(c)(3) from supporting or opposing candidates for public office, including making statements about such candidates. On August 28, 2024, the plaintiffs, two religious nonprofits and two churches, sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its commissioner in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiffs claimed that their right to speak about poli…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Right To Be v. Bondi

1:25-cv-03676 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 2, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's termination of the congressionally-created Anti-Hate Crimes Grant Program; the termination was executed via mass-mailed notices which lacked individual explanation required by law. Congress passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in 2021; part of this legislation appropriated $5 million for DOJ to create the Community-Based Approaches to Hate Crimes program. Plaintiffs, several community organizations which received portions of this funding, used the …

Case Transferred: Docket Closed

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

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

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. Department of State

1:25-cv-01774 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 5, 2025

This case challenged the series of agreements between the Department of State and El Salvador by which El Salvador agreed to accept individuals from the United States and to hold them in detention facilities. This agreement was made on February 3, 2025. Secretary of State Rubio explained that President Bukele of El Salvador “has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, and house them in his j…

Case Is Ongoing

JAIL CONDITIONS
Scott v. Quay

1:19-cv-01075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2024

This case concerns conditions of confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center (“MDC”) in Brooklyn, New York. On February 22, 2019, two individuals who were in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) at MDC brought a class action lawsuit against the warden of the MDC in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case was assigned to District Judge Margo K. Brodie. Suing under Bivens, the plaintiffs alleged that MDC was plunged into darkness and cold from J…

Settled: Case Closed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
M.A.P.S. v. Garite

3:25-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 10, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. This case was also certified related to Sanchez Puentes, et al., v. Garite, et al..  Both cases revolved around the use of the AEA to remove noncitizens in Texas.  This petition arises out of the president's peacetime invocation of the AEA. The petitioner is a 33-year-old Venezuelan national detain…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Marria v. Broadus

1:97-cv-08297 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 1997

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2005

On November 10, 1997, an inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitutional rights ha…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Dismissed