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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Catholic Charities Diocese of Forth Worth, Inc. v. DHHS

1:25-cv-00605 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Closed Date: April 29, 2025

On March 1, 2025, Catholic Charities (Diocese of Forth Worth) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy. The plaintiff challenged the Trump Administration's ongoing freeze of money that had been previously obligated and committed to the plaintiff for care of lawful refugees, alleging that the freeze violated the Administrative Procedure Act (the “APA”). The plaintiff s…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Barnes v. United States

1:25-cv-00043 | U.S. Court of International Trade

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged President Trump's imposition of tariffs on various countries. On February 3, 2025, Gary Barnes, a pro se plaintiff, sued President Trump and the United States in the Court of International Trade, alleging that the tariffs imposed by President Trump violated the Constitution's separation of powers by performing duties delegated to the legislative branch. The plaintiff requested preliminary and permanent injunctive relief banning President Trump from imposing any tariffs or c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hope v. Harris

20-cv-00027 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2018, a prisoner housed in solitary confinement in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at the Polunsky Unit within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice filed a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas challenging the conditions of his confinement. The plaintiff filed suit against the prison’s Senior Warden, Major of Correctional Officers, Deputy Director of Support Operations, and Assistant Director of Classification, as well as three members o…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Saddozai v. Davis

5:18-cv-05558 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations of excessive force by a correctional officer. On September 11, 2018, a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against a correctional officer in San Quentin State Prison under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Originally filing pro se, the plaintiff alleged that he was attacked by other incarcerated individuals when the defendant correctional officer intervened by shooting the plaintiff se…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Susman Godfrey LLP v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-01107 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges President Trump's April 9, 2025, Executive Order (EO) titled "Addressing Risks from Susman Godfrey." (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) Similar to earlier EOs from President Trump that targeted other private law firms, this EO focused on Susman Godfrey--a premier U.S. law firm of 235 trial attorneys--largely because of its work defending the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. As a …
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…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) suspension of federal funding awards to and termination of cooperative agreements with non-governmental organizations that partnered with the government to provide refugee resettlement assistance through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). DOS claimed these actions were consistent with President Trump’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order 14169 “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” (EO 14169).  On February 18, 202…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1:25-cv-01020 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

In this case, non-profit organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) challenged the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) April 1, 2025 closure of its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office and the CDC’s non-compliance with CREW’s subsequent FOIA requests for expedited processing. The FOIA requests sought, per CREW’s complaint, “records regarding the agency’s staff reductions and other matters of significant public interest”—including an ongoing,…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC

1:22-cv-10800 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case pertains to a tenant-screening algorithm that allegedly reinforced racial and economic discrimination in rental housing access.  On May 25, 2022, the plaintiffs—two Black women who held federally funded housing vouchers—filed this class action lawsuit against SafeRent Solutions, LLC, a tenant-screening company, and Metropolitan Management Group, LLC, a property manager that used SafeRent’s screening services. The Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS), a nonprofit that assists l…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Parnell v. City of Berkeley

3:23-cv-06379 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2023

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2024

This case arose from a city’s plan to imminently clear an encampment of unhoused individuals with little notice. On December 11, 2023, three unhoused individuals filed suit against the City of Berkeley to prevent their eviction from an encampment at 8th and Harrison Streets. Proceeding pro se (that is, representing themselves), the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where it was assigned to District Judge Edward M. Chen. The plaint…