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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Cousins v. School Board of Orange County

6:22-cv-01312 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 25, 2022

Closed Date: Aug. 16, 2023

This is a case challenging Florida's H.B. 1557, commonly known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. The state measure restricts instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation in schools. Plaintiffs in this case included students attending Florida schools and their parents, as well as a nonprofit CenterLink that has members, including LGTBQ+ community centers, in various Florida counties. The plaintiffs sued various school boards under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that H.B. 1557 violated the Firs…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mirabelli v. Olson

3:23-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about parental notification rules related to transgender and gender non-conforming students in schools. On April 27, 2023, two middle school teachers sued the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), the California State Board of Education, and various associated officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California before Judge Roger T. Benitez, challenging the school district policy AR 5145.3. The challenged policy requires teachers and staff to r…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
U.S. v. State of California

2:18-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2018

Closed Date: April 6, 2021

This case challenged California's "sanctuary city" state laws. The United States federal government filed this suit on March 6, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Judge John A. Mendez and Magistrate Kendall J. Newman. This lawsuit comes after a series of lawsuits filed by California jurisdictions challenging the federal government's sanctuary city policies, which deny federal funding to jurisdictions that impede the federal governmen…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

3:25-cv-01780 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s firing of "probationary" employees for pretextual reasons. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, four labor organizations--who represent hundreds of thousands of employees within dozens of federal agencies and departments--filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Warren v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00302 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

This case is about the First Amendment rights of public officials. On August 4, 2022, the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, promulgated Executive Order 22-176, suspending a State Attorney after he signed on to statements in support of transgender rights and abortion rights. The Executive Order (EO) claimed the State Attorney was "incompetent" to hold his office and had demonstrated a "neglect of duty" while in office. However, Governor DeSantis stated to the press that the suspension was due t…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Maryland v. United States Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-00748 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 6, 2025, twenty states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Plaintiffs named a number of U.S. Agencies as defendants, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They challenged the defendants' large-scale firing of federal civil servants. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that defendants failed to adhere to statutory and regulatory reduction in force (RIF) notice procedures, thereby severely hampering plaintiffs' abi…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Hammons v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

1:20-cv-02088 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

care. On July 16, 2020, a transgender man, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and private counsel, sued the University of Maryland Medical Systems Corporation (“UMMS”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiff was scheduled to have a hysterectomy as part of his gender-affirming care prescribed by his doctor at UMMS-owned St. Joseph Medical Center (“SJMC”), a Catholic institution bound by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Se…
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
State of Washington v. Department of Justice

2:25-cv-00244 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the constitutionality of President Trump’s January 28, 2025 Executive Order 14187 (EO 14187), titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” that sought in the sections relevant to this case: (1) to prevent medical institutions from providing gender-affirming care to individuals under nineteen years old by conditioning federal funds on institutions' cessation of such care (Section 4 of EO 14187), and (2) to encourage criminal prosecution by insinuating …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Clark v. Cook

3:19-cv-00575 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the right to access gender-affirming medical care while incarcerated. On April 17, 2019, a transgender adult (Plaintiff) brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against Cook County officials and medical providers working for the Connecticut Department of Corrections. This case was presided over by Judge Vanessa L. Bryant. Plaintiff, represented by the ACLU, sued Defendants under 42 U.S. § 1983, alleging the violation of her Eighth Amend…