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Enamorado v. Kaiser

5:25-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges ICE's ability to re-detain noncitizens with withholding of removal. On May 11, 2025, a noncitizen from Honduras who received withholding of removal in 2022 filed this habeas lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Acting San Francisco ICE Field Office Director, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General. The Plaintiff had been ordered by ICE …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Brown v. Yost

2:24-cv-01401 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 27, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case concerns whether Ohio’s ballot initiative process violated the First Amendment by allowing the Attorney General to repeatedly block a proposed state constitutional amendment. On March 27, 2024, three Ohio voters filed this lawsuit after Ohio Attorney General David Yost rejected the summary of their proposed amendment, Protecting Ohioans’ Constitutional Rights—for the seventh time. The proposed amendment created a private cause of action to sue state officials for constitutional rights…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
M.A.P.S. v. Garite

3:25-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On May 10, 2025, a Venezuelan man filed this class petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The Plaintiff named President Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney General, the Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary, Immigration and Custom…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Authors Guild v. National Endowment for the Humanities

1:25-cv-03923 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case involves the Trump administration's termination of 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants. On May 12, 2025, the Authors Guild and several scholars filed this class action lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities, its Acting Chairman, DOGE, and several DOGE officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The scholar plaintiffs had each received an NEH grant to fund their humanities projects, but the Defendants term…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gilliam v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:23-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 18, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of harassment and abuse experienced by three incarcerated transgender women with gender dysphoria--one pretrial detainee and two post-conviction prisoners. All three alleged failure to protect, failure to provide adequate medical care, and cruel and unusual punishment under the 14th Amendment (for the pretrial detainee) or the 8th Amendment. All three also brought claims under the Equal Protection Clause, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Holt v. Payne

5:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: March 1, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of failure to accommodate the religious practices of three Muslim people incarcerated by the Arkansas Department of Corrections (“ADC”) through policies on religious services and headdresses. Represented by CAIR Legal Defense Fund, Plaintiffs filed suit on March 1, 2019, against various named ADC employees in their official and individual capacities in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The complaint alleged violations of the First Amend…
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 …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Black Polaski v. Stein

7:24-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2024

Case Ongoing

In January 2024, two paralegals and the non-profit North Carolina Justice for All Project, filed this lawsuit challenging North Carolina's prohibition on nonlawyers providing any legal advice. The plaintiffs, represented by the Institute for Justice and private counsel, claimed the prohibition prevented them from providing simple legal advice to North Carolinians about how to properly fill in common, court-created legal forms. They sued under 42 USC § 1983, alleging that the ban violated their …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Illinois v. Federal Emergency Management Agency

1:25-cv-00206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: May 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

Twenty states challenge the conditioning of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants on state cooperation in immigration enforcement.  On May 13, 2025, the states filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island against FEMA and its Administrator, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary, and the U.S. Coast Guard and its Acting Commandant. The states alleged that Defendants withheld critical federal emergency funds from the state…