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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National Center for Immigrants' Rights, Inc. v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

2:83-cv-07927 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1983

Closed Date: 1996

On December 6, 1983, a coalition of plaintiffs, including the National Center for Immigrants Rights, Inc., other immigration rights groups and individual alien detainees, brought suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, seeking to block the INS' implementation of a new regulation, 8 C.F.R. § 103.6(a)(2), which prohibited aliens from engaging in employment pending the outcome of their deportation hearings. Plaintiffs contended that the regulation violated…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

1:02-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

In this prison conditions case brought in 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, a federal prisoner in the U.S. Bureau of Prison's (BOP) Florence, Colorado Administrative Maximum (ADX) Detention Unit, claimed violation of First Amendment rights in his pro se federal tort claim against BOP officials. The defendants administered 28 C.F.R. 540.20, a BOP prison regulation restricting inmates from publishing articles under their bylines. The plaintiff, represented by the Univ…

[Court of Appeals] Opinion [Dismissing Appeal of District Court's Order Granting Summary Judgment to Defendants as to Plaintiff's Facial Vagueness Claim and Defendant's Qualified Immunity Defense]

Jordan v. Pugh

Sept. 21, 2005

Order Granting, in Part, the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss on Grounds of Mootness, and Denying the Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment

Jordan v. FBP

April 17, 2006

Order [Dismissing as Moot Plaintiff's Claims Relating to Past Application of 28 C.F.R. 540.20(b), Preserving First Amendment Claim Only]

Jordan v. Pugh

May 1, 2006

Amended Order [Dismissing as Moot Plaintiff's Claims Relating to Past Application of 28 C.F.R. 540.20(b)]

Jordan v. Pugh

May 23, 2006

Order Denying [Plaintiff's] Motion to Reconsider and [Defendants'] Motion to Dismiss [re May 2006 Orders]

Jordan v. Pugh

Sept. 6, 2006

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe #1 v. Rumsfeld

1:03-cv-00707 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 18, 2003

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 2008

On March 18, 2003, plaintiffs, a group of active duty service members, National Guardsmen and Department of Defense civilian contract employees who had been ordered, or were imminently to be ordered, to take Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA) filed a complaint in the District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration. The plaintiffs alleged that they were ordered to submit to inoculation wit…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Hedges v. Obama

1:12-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

This case was filed by a group of writers and activists on January 13, 2012, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. They asked the Court to hold one unconstitutional one provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Pub. L. 112-81, 125 Stat. 1298 (the NDAA). The NDAA had been enacted two weeks before; plaintiffs charged that § 1021 of the NDAA violates their free speech and associational rights, under the Constitution's First Amendment, a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Texas

1:14-cv-00254 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2017

On Dec. 3, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, fourteen states (South Dakota, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, West Virginia, Kansas, Georgia, Nebraska, Utah, Wisconsin, Montana, Idaho, South Carolina, and Indiana) and four governors (of Mississippi, Maine, North Carolina, and Idaho) sued the U.S. government for violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief. The origina…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Texas v. United States

7:16-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 25, 2016

Closed Date: March 3, 2017

This lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle, across several cases, over allowing transgender individuals access to public facilities matching their gender identities. With eleven states joining together to challenge the DOJ, DOE, EEOC, and DOL over their interpretations of antidiscrimination statutes, it represents the broadest challenge to date of the Obama administration’s position that transgender individuals should have access to bathrooms, changing rooms, and other public facilities an…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Batalla Vidal v. Nielsen

1:16-cv-04756 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2016

On August 25, 2016, a Mexican-born Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient living in New York filed this suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff, represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and 5 U.S.C. § 551, alleging that the revocation of his …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Franciscan Alliance, LLC v. Burwell

7:16-cv-00108 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2016

On August 23, 2016, religiously-affiliated health organizations and five states (Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kentucky, and Kansas) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Secretary under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act claiming violations of these Acts, as well as their First, Fifth, Tenth, and Eleventh Amendment rights. The plaintiff…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
County of Santa Clara v. Trump

3:17-cv-00574 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2019

The County of Santa Clara commenced this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 to challenge President Trump's January 25, 2017 Executive Order (EO), Executive Order 13768. The EO denied federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions that resist enforcing the federal government’s immigration enforcement policies. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiff filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. According to the comp…