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Jansen v. Trump

1:25-cv-02961 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2025

This lawsuit challenges the Executive Order titled "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government." Just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Section 2 of the Order redefined “sex” narrowly as immutable biological characteristics fixed at conception, thereby denying l…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP) v. Michigan Law Review Association

5:25-cv-11837 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 18, 2025

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2025

The case challenged alleged racial and sex discrimination by the Michigan Law Review, a student law journal at the University of Michigan Law School, in its selection of members and articles. On June 18, 2025, Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences ("FASORP") filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. FASORP sued the Michigan Law Review Association ("MLR"), its editor-in-chief, managing editor, and executive development editor, four ano…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
The City of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-01510 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s reversal of previously approved federal emergency shelter funding to the City of New York and the termination of the underlying grant program. On February 21, 2025, the City of New York filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against President Donald Trump, FEMA, DHS, the Treasury Department, and associated officials. The case was assigned to Judge Jennifer H. Rearden. The lawsuit arose out of FEMA’s She…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Democracy Forward Foundation v. U.S. Marshals Service

1:25-cv-00749 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

This is a case about government transparency and the public’s right to access information about possible executive branch interference in the federal judiciary.  On March 14, 2025, the Democracy Forward Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on government accountability, filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Marshals Service ("USMS") in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The Plaintiff had previously filed several requests under the Freedom of Information Act ("FO…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Montana Green Party v. Stapleton

6:18-cv-00087 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2018

Closed Date: March 30, 2022

This case involved the State of Montana’s signature requirement for the recognition of a political party, particularly Montana’s per-legislative-district signature requirement. On August 13, 2018, eight residents and registered voters in the State of Montana, along with the Montana Green Party, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Helena). The Defendant is the Secretary of State for the State of Montana. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. Plaintiffs ci…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Newsom v. Trump

3:25-cv-04870 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 9, 2025

This case challenged the federal deployment of the California National Guard to protect federal property and immigration officials from protesters in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. On June 9, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California filed suit in the Northern District of North California, challenging recent actions by President Trump in deploying the National Guard in the Los Angeles area. On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers carried out multiple e…

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sanders v. Trump

2:20-cv-00921 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 18, 2020

On November 10, 2020, the Plaintiff, a resident of Alabama and candidate for election in Nevada, alleged that he suffered a deprivation of rights, privileges, or immunities secured to him by the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment because the Nevada Secretary of State excluded his name from being listed on the ballot in every county in the State of Nevada. Plaintiff further alleged that the Secretary of State acted with the encouragement and support of President Trump. Plaintiff sued Pres…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Smith v. The State of Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles

1:15-cv-00625 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2015

Closed Date: April 26, 2018

On December 11, 2015, a pro se individual filed suit against the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, alleging that it discriminated against him due to his race and denied restoration of his voting rights. The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Alabama and assigned to Judge William H. Steele. The pro se plaintiff originally sued the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment. The plaintiff sought to have his vo…