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EDUCATION
Somerville Public Schools v. Trump

1:25-cv-10677 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Several lawsuits have been brought challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. This case is one; the others can be found here. On March 24, 2025, several school districts and labor organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, suing President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Education, and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. The plaintiffs challenged the Trump administration's efforts to dis…

Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. McMahon

1:25-cv-10601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 13, 2025

This case, brought by 21 states, challenged the Trump administration's directive to dismantle the Department of Education through a massive "reduction in force." The immediate catalyst for this lawsuit was the Department of Education’s announcement on March 11, 2025, of a near-50% workforce reduction, seen by the plaintiff states as an unlawful attempt to incapacitate the agency and its statutorily mandated functions. The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, herself stated that these workforc…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

POLICING
Illinois v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-06260 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2017

This case established a consent decree related to alleged systemic misconduct by the Chicago Police Department.  On August 29, 2017, the State of Illinois filed this lawsuit against the City of Chicago in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003, and the Illinois Human Rights Act. The State brought this action on behalf of the people of Illinois to ensure that the City enacted comprehensive, lasting reform of th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Rural Development Innovations Limited v. Marocco

1:25-cv-01631 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's attempt to dismantle the United States African Development Foundation (USADF). On May 21, 2025, two former employees of the United States African Development Foundation and a consulting firm that frequently partnered with USADF filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the purported acting chair of USADF, several cabinet secretaries and agency heads, and President Donald Trump. They challenged the …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2025

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Institute of Peace v. Jackson

1:25-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

This case challenged the allegedly unlawful takeover of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent nonprofit created by Congress. On Feb. 19, 2025, an executive order issued by President Trump—Executive Order 14217, “Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” (Feb. 19, 2025)—designated USIP as a federal entity subject to dissolution. On March 14, 2025, the White House allegedly notified certain board members of their termination. On March 17, 2025, government agents, …

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

PRISON CONDITIONS
Bradley v. Haley

2:92-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 1992

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2005

On January 15, 1992, a group of prisoners incarcerated in the Alabama Department of Corrections brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the adequacy of mental health treatment provided by state prison officials. The plaintiffs, mentally ill prisoners, were represented by private counsel and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The case was assigned to Judge W. Harold Albritton III. The plaintiffs were granted class certification o…
POLICING
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Town of Windsor

CL21001186-00 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This case stemmed from the December 6, 2020 traffic stop of a Black and Latino service member whom police pepper sprayed during a stop for a minor traffic violation. The Clearinghouse was unable to locate the original and amended complaints but completed this summary based on news articles. According to WLJA News, on December 30, 2021, Virginia Attorney General Herring’s Office of Civil Rights filed a complaint against the Town of Windsor (“Town”) for violations of the Virginia Public Integrity…
POLICING
People of the State of New York v. Wallkill

7:01-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2006

This case involved misconduct by the Wallkill Police Department (WPD). On January 18, 2001, the Attorney General filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Town of Wallkill (Town), seeking injunctive relief to reform and monitor the WPD. The case was assigned to District Judge Colleen McMahon. The lawsuit was the offshoot of the Attorney General's investigation of the WPD. The investigation revealed a pattern of pervasive misconduct, including…