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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste v. Noem

6:25-cv-00699 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

This case is one of several challenging a January 20, 2025, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy (outlined in a document termed the “Huffman Memorandum”) that rescinded the Federal Government’s longstanding policy not to conduct immigration enforcement in “protected areas,” such as churches and schools. The previous policy, outlined in a 2021 DHS memorandum, had specified that agents were to refrain, to the fullest extent possible, from engaging in law enforcement actions near or i…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Etienne v. Ferguson

3:25-cv-05461 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 29, 2025

This case challenged a Washington state law, SB 5375, which required priests to report any suspected child abuse or neglect disclosed by penitents in confession. Confession is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and has been an integral part of its theology for two millennia. "Eternal damnation" and automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church await any priest who breaks the confidentiality of confession. Washington's three Catholic dioceses already mandated reporting for s…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRISON CONDITIONS
Blue v. Lockhart

5:84-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Closed Date: March 27, 2024

On December 5, 1984, a prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arkansas Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that prison officials had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion. The parties entered into a consent decree. On April 16, 1992 the plaintiff asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt, claiming that they had violated the consent d…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je Association v. Roy

1:25-cv-01484 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 12, 2025

Closed Date: June 24, 2025

This is a case challenging the enforcement of Colorado’s gender identity regulations against a religious summer camp. On May 12, 2025, Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je Association (the “Camp”), a religious-based children’s resident summer camp, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District of Colorado. The Camp sued the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) and the Director of CDEC’s Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration. The Camp, represented by Alliance Defending Fr…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Catholic Benefits Association v. Burrows

1:24-cv-00142 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: July 24, 2024

This lawsuit challenged the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act's requirement that employers provide reasonable accommodations for employees experiencing limitations relating to abortion. On July 24, 2024, the Catholic Benefits Association and the Bismarck Diocese (collectively, “CBA”) sued the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (collectively, “EEOC”) in the United States District Court for the District of N…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District

5:25-cv-00756 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 2, 2025

This a case challenging Texas Senate Bill 10 (S.B. 10), which required public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.   On July 2, 2025, the plaintiffs, a group of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Unitarian Universalist, and nonreligious families with children enrolled in Texas public school districts (collectively, “the families”), filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court of the Western District of Texas.  Represented by private counsel as well as the ACLU of Texas, the n…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Christian Employers Alliance v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1:25-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2025

This case is about two actions by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding gender identity and accommodations for abortion in the workplace. First, the EEOC published requirements and guidance on gender identity discrimination in the workplace. Specifically, the EEOC stated that discrimination based on gender identity constituted sex discrimination in violation of Title VII, and indicated that actions by an employer like misgendering, deadnaming, and unequal ba…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mirabelli v. Olson

3:23-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2023

This is a case about parental notification rules related to transgender and gender non-conforming students in schools. On April 27, 2023, two middle school teachers sued the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), the California State Board of Education, and various associated officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California before Judge Roger T. Benitez, challenging the school district policy AR 5145.3. The challenged policy requires teachers and staff to r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Frankel v. Regents of The University of California

2:24-cv-04702 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 5, 2024

Closed Date: July 18, 2025

This is a case about speech and religious freedom on college campuses. On June 5, 2024, a group of Jewish students at UCLA sued the Regents of the University of California and other university officials in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California based on the university's alleged failure to protect Jewish students, faculty, and staff during on-campus protests. The plaintiffs brought claims under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; 42 U.S.C. § 1985 (conspiracy to interfere wi…

Settled: Case Closed

Appeal 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