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107 cases, 121 documents
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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

Case Ongoing

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…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
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

Case Ongoing

Transgender and nonbinary Americans sued the Trump Administration over its changes to existing 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 thi…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Trump

1:21-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the violent insurrection and disruption of Congress on January 6, 2021, while Congress approved the results of the Electoral College in order to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States. On February 16, 2021, a member of the United States House of Representatives, in his personal capacity, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel and the NAACP, the plaintiff sued the President…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
U.S. v. State of California

2:18-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2018

Closed Date: April 6, 2021

This case challenged California's "sanctuary city" state laws. The United States federal government filed this suit on March 6, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Judge John A. Mendez and Magistrate Kendall J. Newman. This lawsuit comes after a series of lawsuits filed by California jurisdictions challenging the federal government's sanctuary city policies, which deny federal funding to jurisdictions that impede the federal governmen…
EDUCATION
Kestenbaum v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

1:24-cv-10092 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is about alleged antisemitism at Harvard University following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel.  The plaintiffs were Students Against Antisemitism (SAA), a not-for-profit corporation formed to combat antisemitism in higher education, and several of its members who were enrolled at Harvard, including one named student plaintiff. They brought this suit against Harvard University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on January 10, 2024. The plaintiffs br…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-00946 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On March 31, 2025, three nonprofits filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. They named the Executive Office of the President, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and its director and commissioners, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Federal Voting Assistance Program, and their agency heads as Defendants.  Three consolidated cases challenge President Trump's …