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Newsom v. Trump

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

Filed Date: June 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On June 9, 2025, the State of California and its Governor filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Defense, and its Secretary. They challenged Defendants' decision to deploy members of the California National Guard against immigration-related protests in Los Angeles, without the State's authorization. They alleged that the deployme…
POLICING
People of the State of New York v. Wallkill

7:01-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2006

This case involved misconduct by the Wallkill Police Department (WPD). On January 18, 2001, the Attorney General filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Town of Wallkill (Town), seeking injunctive relief to reform and monitor the WPD. The case was assigned to District Judge Colleen McMahon. The lawsuit was the offshoot of the Attorney General's investigation of the WPD. The investigation revealed a pattern of pervasive misconduct, including…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Maryland Department of State Police

1:24-cv-02862 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2024

Closed Date: March 3, 2025

On October 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the Maryland Department of State Police (MDSP) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, alleging that MDSP’s employment screening process violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by systematically excluding Black and female applicants from hiring for the entry-level Trooper jobs. Specifically, the DOJ alleged that since at least 2017, the MDSP had engaged in a pattern or practice of uni…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orellana Castaneda v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:17-cv-04267 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

Undocumented immigrants allege that Suffolk County law enforcement unlawfully detained immigrants past their release dates based on ICE detainers, raising key questions about local enforcement of immigration laws. On July 18, 2017, an undocumented immigrant brought this case against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the County of Suffolk, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) in the United States District Court for the …
EDUCATION
State of Texas v. The United States of America

2:24-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 29, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case involves an attempt to block new Title IX rules from going into effect. On April 19, 2024, the Biden administration introduced its "Final Rule," which clarifies the interpretation of Title IX to broaden protections against sex discrimination in education. Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on April 29, 2024, against the United States of America, the U.S. Secretary of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, the Assistant Secretary f…
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
Doe v. Collins

1:25-cv-00760 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) termination of 12 civil servants at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Office of Equity Assurance (OEA) based on the VA's designation of OEA as a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) office and the 12 civil servants as DEIA employees. These designations and firings resulted directly from—were carried out in purported compliance with—President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (EO 14151) that directed elimination…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Dalton v. Hao

1:23-cv-11216 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 31, 2023

Closed Date: June 20, 2023

This is a case about grant funding that favored women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.  On May 31, 2023, a white male owner of a for-profit firearms academy filed a lawsuit in the District if Massachusetts against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development and the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (the administrator of the grant), alleging that the state's program for pandemic relief, the Inclusive Recovery Grant Program, …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ozturk v. Hyde

2:25-cv-00374 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On March 25, 2025, Turkish national and Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was abruptly detained by masked plainclothes agents of the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. The federal government …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. Richland County

8:22-cv-01358 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenges conditions for pretrial detainees who have serious mental illness. This case was filed by Disability Rights South Carolina (DRSC) against Richland County, South Carolina, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on April 28, 2022. Filing on behalf of incarcerated individuals, DRSC alleged that the dangerous and inhumane pre-trial detention practices at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center violated Due Process, Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of…