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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kaimowitz v. Supervisor of Elections

1:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

This is a case about Florida’s judicial election system and whether excluding unopposed judicial candidates from ballots violates voting rights. On July 15, 2016, the plaintiff, a disbarred attorney proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Gainesville Division. The plaintiff sued the Supervisor of Elections for Alachua County, John Harkness (Florida Bar executive director), Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Inc. (“EJC…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Widakuswara v. Lake

1:25-cv-01015 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

This case challenges the grant terminations and the placing of journalists on administrative leave from the United States Agency for Global Media. On March 14, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14238 entitled “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” 90 Fed. Reg. 13043, which directed that the "non-statutory components and functions" of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”  USAGM is an indepe…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

EDUCATION
Carroll v. Walden University, LLC

1:22-cv-00051 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2024

This case involves a legal challenge to Walden University, a for-profit university in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for practices which allegedly targeted and exploited students who are black and/or women, and enrolled at the University’s Doctor of Business Administration program (“DBA”). On January 7, 2022, plaintiffs filed suit in U.S. District Court in the District of Maryland against Walden University and Walden E-Learning, which jointly operate Walden University. Plaintiffs, students who had bee…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pavek v. Simon

0:19-cv-03000 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

This case is about a Minnesota law, Minn. Stat. § 204D.13(2), that requires general election ballots to list the major political party candidates in reverse order based on the average number of votes their party received in the last state general election. Because the Minnesota Democratic Party, called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), received the highest average vote share in the 2018 general election, the ballot order statute required DFL candidates to be listed last on the 2020 gener…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

Appeal Dismissed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought

1:25-cv-00381 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's endeavor to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On February 7, 2025, Elon Musk posted, “CFPB RIP” on social media. The next day, the Acting Director of the CFPB instructed CFPB staff to “immediately” stop all work and informed the Federal Reserve that the CFPB would not take any additional funding for its operations in the next quarter. This action happened in the larger context of the Trump Administration’s effort to disman…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Reversed

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Academy of Pediatrics v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-11916 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy issued a "Secretarial Directive" promising that the COVID vaccine was removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedules for healthy children and pregnant women. This action runs contrary to his promises during his Senate confirmation promise that he would not do anything as secretary that "makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines." On July 7, 2025, several medical organizations, as well as an in…

Case Is Ongoing

JAIL CONDITIONS
Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mansor v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:23-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 9, 2023

This case is about lawful U.S. immigrants in a Temporary Protected Status receiving their interim employment authorization from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. On March 9, 2023, three plaintiffs filed a class action complaint in United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs brought their claims against United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the Director and Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Secur…

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:14-cv-00078 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2022

On February 10, 2014, the United States filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-6 ("Title VII"). The United States (the Employment Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division) brought suit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections seeking an injunction to prevent the defendant from engaging in future discrimination and back-pay damages to “make whole” those who had been harmed by the alleg…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Munday v. Beaufort County

9:20-cv-02144 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 5, 2020

This is a lawsuit concerning the allegedly unconstitutional manner in which female inmates were searched at the Beaufort County Detention Center (“BCDC”) in Beaufort, South Carolina. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged that between February, 2015 through May, 2020, BCDC had a policy of strip searching all female pre-classification detainees upon entry into the facility, but not similarly-situated male detainees. It was brought by two individual female pre-classification detainees at BCDC who were…

Case Is Ongoing