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DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Association of the Deaf v. Trump

1:25-cv-01683 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 28, 2025

Closed Date: July 25, 2025

This case is about the federal government's obligation to provide accessible communication for deaf individuals during official public events. On May 28, 2025, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and two individual deaf members filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against President Trump, the Executive Office of the President, the White House Office, the Office of the Vice President, the White House Chief of Staff, and the U.S. Press Secretary. Repre…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump

3:25-cv-03698 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

On April 28, 2025, the American Federation of Government Employees and several other labor organizations, nonprofits, and cities/counties filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. They named President Donald Trump and numerous federal departments and agencies and their agency heads as Defendants. The Plaintiffs challenged Executive Order 14210, which ordered agencies across the federal government to engage in a radical transformation of the …

Case Is Ongoing

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. U.S Department of Homeland Security

4:25-cv-03585 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2025

The case challenges a new Interim Final Rule (IFR) that mandates noncitizens who are 14 years or older and have been in the U.S. for at least 30 days to register with the federal government. This registration requires submitting fingerprints and other biometric data, and carrying proof of registration at all times. The IFR, issued on March 12, 2025, and effective on April 11, 2025, also requires parents or legal guardians to register any unregistered children under 14.  Plaintiff John Doe filed…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Comans v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-01237 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

This case challenged the legality of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) February 11, 2025, firing of FEMA's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). On February 11, the plaintiff received a memorandum stating: This is an official notice that, effective immediately, you are being removed from your position with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and from Federal service. This action is being taken pursuant to Article II of the United States Constitution, at the direction of the Preside…

Case Is Ongoing

INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Messier v. Southbury Training School

3:94-cv-01706 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1994

Closed Date: March 13, 2019

On October 4, 1994, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Connecticut's Departments of Mental Retardation (DMR), Social Services (DSS), and Public Health (DPH) and Southbury Training School, an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief on behalf of both current and future Southbury residents.…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orr v. Trump

1:25-cv-10313 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Transgender and nonbinary Americans sued the Trump Administration over its changes to passport policy, which required new passports issued by the State Department to reflect applicants’ sex assigned at birth. President Trump’s Executive Order 14168 directed the Secretary of State to “implement changes to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex” as defined within the order. Under this policy,…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Wilcox v. Trump

1:25-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2025

This is a challenge to the second Trump administration's termination of Gwynne Wilcox, the Chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to the second Trump administration, click here.) The plaintiff in this case was fired on January 27, 2025 by President Trump from her positions as Chair and member of the National Labor Relations Board, even though her term was not set to expire until 2028.  She filed this l…

Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mhany Management Inc. v. County of Nassau

2:05-cv-02301 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2005

Closed Date: March 11, 2022

On May 12, 2005, individual New York residents and the New York ACORN local chapter filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued Nassau County and the Village of Garden City under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, citing violations of these acts as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The plaintiffs asked the court to enjoin the defendants from procee…
CHILD WELFARE
Brazwell v. Wagner

California state trial court

Filed Date: March 23, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2010

On March 23, 2010, the National Center for Youth Law, the Alliance for Children's Rights, and private counsel filed this state court lawsuit representing children who receive benefits through California's Kin-GAP program, which provides cash assistance and Medi-Cal to foster children living with relatives as their legal guardians. The program was created in 1999 by the California Legislature to encourage family members to care for youth who had been removed from their parents by the dependency …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Busby v. Bonner

2:20-cv-02359 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 20, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2023

Two individuals with medical conditions that rendered them especially vulnerable to COVID-19 filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus on May 20, 2020 against the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. They sought to represent a class of Shelby County Jail detainees with disabilities or who were medically vulnerable to COVID-19. Represented by lawyers from the ACLU as well as private counsel, they alleged violati…

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