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Texas Association of Money Services Businesses v. Bondi

5:25-cv-00344 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 1, 2025

This case is about a trade group’s challenge to a sweeping Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) reporting requirement targeting money services businesses (MSBs). On March 11, 2025, FinCEN issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) that required all money services businesses located in thirty specific ZIP codes near the southern border to file reports for any cash transactions over $200 in value, a threshold drastically lower than the $10,000 threshold for MSBs in other locations. On Apr…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Valuta Corporation, Inc. v. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

3:25-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 30, 2025

This case challenges a federal reporting rule requiring certain money services businesses (MSBs) near the U.S.–Mexico border to report small cash transactions. On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued the Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order (GTO), requiring MSBs in thirty zip codes near the southern border to report each transaction, or series of transactions, by or for any one person totaling more than $200 in currency for money transfers to or from M…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United Farm Workers v. Noem

1:25-cv-00246 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2025

This class action lawsuit stems from "Operation Return to Sender," conducted by Border Patrol agents over 300 miles from the border in Kern County, California in January 2025. The plaintiffs allege that agents detained and arrested people of color who appeared to be farm workers or day laborers regardless of their actual immigration status, with no explanation or notice to family members, and coerced them into accepting "voluntary departure" without being able to consult with an immigration att…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

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Flowers Title Companies, LLC v. Bessent

6:25-cv-00127 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

In this case, a title company in Texas challenged a federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) rule—published during the Biden Administration on August 29, 2024 and set to take effect on December 1, 2025—that requires “certain persons involved in real estate closings and settlements to submit reports and keep records on certain non-financed transfers of residential real property to specified legal entities and trusts on a nationwide basis.” Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Resid…

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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. v. Bessent

3:25-cv-00554 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 20, 2025

This case challenged a rule promulgated on August 19, 2024, by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The rule, entitled "Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers" (the "Rule"), allegedly exceeded FinCEN's statutory authority by requiring disclosure of all non-financed residential real estate transactions, rather than limiting disclosures to "suspicious" transactions as authorized by statute. Plainti…

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POLICING
DOJ Investigation of the Lexington Police Department and the City of Lexington, Mississippi

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This is a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) pattern and practice investigation of the City of Lexington, Mississippi and its police department. The investigation was announced on November 8, 2023. Lexington is a small town near the Mississippi Delta with a population of about 1,200. Its population is about 1,200 people (76% Black and 22% white) with a median income of roughly $39,000, which is half the national average. The LPD made the national news in July 2022 when a former LPD officer leaked…
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United States of America v. County of Los Angeles

2:15-cv-03174 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2015

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated a civil investigation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department on August 19, 2011. The investigation focused on allegations of unconstitutional conduct by deputies at two stations located in the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California. The DOJ proceeded under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. § 14141 (Section 14141), and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. …
POLICING
United States of America v. City of Minneapolis

0:25-cv-00048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …

Administrative Stay Granted

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United States of America v. Louisville Metro/Jefferson County Government

3:24-cv-00722 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2024

On April 26, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it had opened a pattern and practice investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) to assess: all use of force, with a particular focus on use of force against individuals with behavioral health disabilities or individuals engaged in activities protected by the First Amendment; discriminatory practices in conducting stops, searches, seizures, and arrests; department policies, training, and supervision; and LMPD account…

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DOJ Investigation of Louisiana State Police

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On June 9, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division’s Special Litigation Section began investigating the Louisiana State Police (LSP) to determine if the LSP's officers employed excessive force and if its policing practices were racially discriminatory. As described in the DOJ press release, its investigation included a "comprehensive review of LSP policies, training, supervision, and force investigations, as well as LSP’s systems of accountability, including misconduct …