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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New Jersey v. Trump

1:25-cv-10139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

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…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

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

1:25-cv-10676 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

This class action challenges Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportations of noncitizens to countries that are not their designated country of removal, without first providing an opportunity for the noncitizen to demonstrate fear of persecution, torture, and even death in the chosen third country. Four anonymous class plaintiffs, all noncitizens from Central America currently residing in Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit on March 23, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Ma…

Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Blodgett v. Hughs

1:19-cv-01154 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2019

Closed Date: July 28, 2021

This case is about a Texas law (House Bill 1888) that prohibits temporary early-voting locations unless they operate the same weekdays as the main early voting location and are open for at least eight hours on each of those days. On November 26, 2019, a 96-year-old registered voter living in Austin along with Texas Young Democrats and Texas College Democrats filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Austin). They sued the Texas Secretary of State under 42 …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

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 …
EDUCATION
McKinney v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

1:23-cv-01372 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2023

This putative class-action lawsuit was filed on August 4, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, on behalf of Black student-athletes at HBCUs. The plaintiff, a current student-athlete at an HBCU, alleged that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) engaged in discriminatory practices through the use of its Academic Performance Program in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and 42 U.S.C. § 1985. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought an injuncti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Montoya v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:20-cv-03345 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 8, 2022

On November 9, 2020, a blind woman incarcerated in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued CDOC, its Executive Director, and thirteen other staff members. She alleged that defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the Rehabilitation Act, CRIPA, CDOC Administrative Regulations as well as her constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Ame…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump

8:25-cv-00337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

This case challenges the legality of two executive orders issued by President Trump, EO 14168 and EO 14187. The EOs aimed to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals under the age of nineteen. On February 4, 2025, PFLAG Inc., alongside the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (GLMA) and several individual plaintiffs, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the U.S…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Alexander v. Hall

4:20-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On February 10, 2020, fourteen prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Press reports connected this sue to entertainment mogul Jay-Z, who had the month before written an open letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant decrying the conditions at state correctional facilities. The plaintiffs claimed that state officials were aware of and deliberately indi…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

JAIL CONDITIONS
Roman v. Wolf

5:20-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 13, 2020

This case concerns the due process rights of immigration detainees in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center during the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 13, 2020, immigration detainees filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), and the warden of the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU of Southern California, the petitioners …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Heyer v. United States Bureau of Prisons

5:11-ct-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 20, 2011

Closed Date: April 26, 2022

This case is about access to communication and auxiliary aids for deaf people in federal prison. On June 20, 2011, two deaf prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit under Bivens and claimed violations of the Rehabilitation Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration …