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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of Minnesota

0:25-cv-03798 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2025

This case challenged Minnesota’s state and local “sanctuary” policies that restrict cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The United States alleged that Minnesota, along with Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Hennepin County, enacted and enforced laws and directives that obstruct the federal government’s ability to detain and remove undocumented immigrants, in violation of the Supremacy Clause. On September 29, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the D…

Case Is Ongoing

POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

No Court

On November 25, 2008, the LatinoJustice PRLDEF of New York filed a complaint letter with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division demanding that the federal government look into the Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD). They alleged that SCPD had deprived Latinos equal access to the law, both by failing to adequately investigate crimes committed against Latinos by whites and by discouraging Latinos from seeking assistance from local law enforcement agencies. Though it made no ref…

Re: Suffolk County Police Department Technical Assistance Letter

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

Sept. 13, 2011

United States Agrees to Comprehensive Settlement with Suffolk County Police Department to Resolve Investigation of Discriminatory Policing Against Latinos

[Suffolk County Police Department]

Dec. 3, 2013

Agreement between the United States Department of Justice and Suffolk County Police Department

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

Jan. 13, 2014

Convenio Entre el Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos y el Departamento de Policía del Condado de Suffolk [Settlement Agreement (Spanish)]

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

Jan. 13, 2014

Correspondence Re: Assessment of SCPD's Compliance with the Settlement Agreement

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

June 26, 2015

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NATIONAL SECURITY
American Oversight v. Hegseth

1:25-cv-00883 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

This case challenges high-level federal officials' use of encrypted, auto-deleting messaging apps to conduct national security business, raising serious record-keeping and transparency concerns.  On March 25, 2025, American Oversight filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the CIA, and several other senior federal figures. The plaintiffs challenged the defendants’ use of t…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

POLICING
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. …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Manning

61-08257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 28, 1961

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 1963

On April 28, 1961, the U.S Attorney General sued the State of Louisiana and the Registrar of Voters for East Carroll Parish for creating policies that prevented Black people from exercising the right to register to vote. This action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and was assigned to Chief Judge Ben C. Dawkins, Jr. The Attorney General sought injunctive relief to end the systemic voter registration denial for persons of color.  As alleged in the compl…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Garrahy

1:74-cv-00172 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 16, 1974

Closed Date: Feb. 19, 2014

On 01/11/2007, six inmates in the "awaiting trial" section of the Adult Correctional Institutions of Rhode Island (ACI) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented in part by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated because …
NATIONAL SECURITY
CLEAR v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

1:19-cv-07079 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2023

This is a FOIA case wherein plaintiffs sought records from the Customs and Border Protection pertaining to its Tactical Terrorism Response Teams (TTRTs).  On December 12, 2019, Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility Project (“CLEAR”), the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”), and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (“ACLUF”) sued the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs su…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Knight First Amendment Institute v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:17-cv-07572 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2017

This case challenged various government departments' withholding of records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This lawsuit, filed October 4, 2017, sought to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State (DOS) to release certain records under FOIA. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting freedom of speech and press, sought "records concerning the exclusion or removal of individuals fro…

Case Is Ongoing

Reversed

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Askins v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:12-cv-02600 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2012

On October 24, 2012, two U.S. citizens detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) after taking pictures of ports of entry filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, under 5 U.S.C. § 702, 28 U.S.C. § 2201 and Bivens, against CBP, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the ACLU of San Diego and private counsel, sought injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief, alleging that CBP's pol…