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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Public Health Association v. National Institutes of Health

1:25-cv-10787 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the abrupt termination of numerous National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research projects and the halting of grant application processes. On April 2, 2025, the American Public Health Association; IBIS Reproductive Health; International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers (UAW); and four private plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, consisting of leading health resear…

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump

3:25-cv-03698 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

On April 28, 2025, the American Federation of Government Employees and several other labor organizations, nonprofits, and cities/counties filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. They named President Donald Trump and numerous federal departments and agencies and their agency heads as Defendants. The Plaintiffs challenged Executive Order 14210, which ordered agencies across the federal government to engage in a radical transformation of the …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

PRISON CONDITIONS
Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.

1:08-cv-00827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case involves allegations of abuse and torture suffered by four Iraqi men who were detained at Abu Ghraib in 2003. On June 30, 2008, an Iraqi civilian who was imprisoned and allegedly tortured in an Iraq prison filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against two defense contractors—CACI (and its wholly owned subsidiary, collectively known as “CACI Defendants”) and L-3—and a named individual who allegedly worked for CACI as a screener and interro…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corporation

1:19-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 18, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about a public-school corporation’s policy requiring teachers to call transgender students by their preferred name based on an official database. Brownsburg Community School Corporation (BCSC) established a policy allowing students to change their name in the official student database at the request of the student, their parents, and a health care provider. Once entered, teachers would then be required to call the student by their preferred name. The plaintiff, a Christian teacher …

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending

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

Case Ongoing

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

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller

2:15-cv-00497 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 10, 2015

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2019

On July 10, 2015, the West Alabama Women’s Center, its Medical Director, and a physician it employed (collectively, the “Clinic”), sued Alabama's State Health Officer (“SHO”) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Represented by the ACLU, the Clinic challenged an Alabama statute that required every physician who performed an abortion at a licensed abortion clinic to have staff privileges at a local hospital or, alternatively, that the clinic have a written agree…
CHILD WELFARE
Bryan C v. Lambrew

1:21-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2024

This is a class action lawsuit about the administration of psychotropic drugs in Maine foster care.  On January 6, 2021, the plaintiffs, four foster children in the custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), filed suit through their next friend in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine against the Commissioner of the Maine DHHS and the Director of the Maine Office of Child and Family Services. The complaint set forth that Maine’s Department of Health and Human S…

Case Is Ongoing

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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women v. Secretary of State

1:06-cv-21265 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 22, 2006

Closed Date: June 7, 2009

On May 22, 2006, the League of Women Voters of Florida, People Acting for Community Together (Pact), Florida AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 79 (AFSCME), SEIU Florida Healthcare Union, as organizations and representatives of their members, the President of the Tallahassee League of Women Voters, and one hundred eligible voters who have not registered to vote, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Defen…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States v. Adams

1:24-cr-00556 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2024

Closed Date: April 2, 2025

The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams for alleged corruption in September 2024, but after President Trump took office, his Department of Justice directed that charges be dropped.  Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said the prosecution “unduly restricted” the mayor’s ability to “devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that has escalated under the policies of the prior Administration.”  Se…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)