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EDUCATION
State of New York v. United States Department of Education

1:25-cv-02990 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

On April 10, 2025, sixteen states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the U.S. Department of Education and its Secretary. The states challenged Defendants' revocation of the state's access to funds appropriated to help public schools recover from the effects of COVID-19. They alleged that Defendants' actions violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The case was assigned to District Judge Edgardo Ramo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United Spinal Association v. Board of Elections in the City of New York

1:10-cv-05653 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 26, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2020

On July 26, 2010, the United Spinal Association and Disabled in Action represented by Disabled Rights Advocates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Elections in the City of New York under the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.) and the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794). They sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants knowingly failed to fix deficiencies in accessibility at pollin…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
(PC) Watson v. Sisto

2:07-cv-01871 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2007

Closed Date: March 9, 2012

On August 28, 2007, plaintiff, initially proceeding pro se, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On September 10, 2007, this case was transferred to the Eastern District of California. This case is presided over by Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.   Plaintiff alleged that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs, claiming violation of his First and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiff sought compensatory damages, punitive damages, cost…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Heredia Mons v. McAleenan

1:19-cv-01593 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 30, 2019, asylum seekers detained under the jurisdiction of the New Orleans ICE Field Office filed this class action lawsuit under the Administrative Procedure Act and 28 U.S.C.§§ 1361 and 1651 against the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); the Acting Director of ICE; the Acting Executive Associate Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations; and the Acting Director of the New Orleans ICE Field Office. Represented by the ACLU of Louisiana and Southern P…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Washington v. Trump

2:25-cv-00127 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Richardson

1:05-cv-01168 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2005

Closed Date: July 6, 2007

This case challenged a correctional facility's religious programming as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. On November 7, 2005, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc., along with several individual members of the organization who were New Mexico taxpayers, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against the New Mexico Corrections Department and the Correction Corporation of America (CCA), a private contractor paid to run the N…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's authority to suspend congressionally-appropriated federal financial assistance pending a review to ensure that the spending accords with Administration priorities. On January 28, 2025, twenty-two states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the Office of Management and Budget, and a number of executive agencies under the Administrative Proce…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, mecha…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Koe v. Noggle

1:23-cv-02904 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 29, 2023

Case Ongoing

On June 29, 2023, four families on behalf of their transgender children, and TransParent, a national organization of parents with transgender children, sued several Georgia officials in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. They challenged a Georgia statute prohibiting medical providers from treating gender dysphoria in minors with hormone therapy, which was scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2023. The plaintiffs alleged that this statute violated the fundamental rig…