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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
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-10814 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s disruption of NIH grants to state research institutions. These disruptions included delays in the review and approval process of applications, as well as terminations of already-issued grants. Since January 2025, NIH canceled grant application meetings and indefinitely postponed scheduling future meetings. The Agency also withheld final decisions on applications that had already been approved through the standard review process. Additionally, NIH …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Marie v. Moser

2:14-cv-02518 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2014

Closed Date: July 22, 2016

This case is a constitutional challenge to Kansas laws which prohibited same-sex marriages. On October 10, 2024, two same-sex couples who reside in Kansas sued the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, a Clerk of the District Court for the 7th Judicial District, and a Clerk of the District Court for the 18th Judicial District, in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, Kansas City Division. Plaintiffs challenged the state of Kansas’ practice of denying marriage s…

Injunction Granted

PRISON CONDITIONS
X. v. New Jersey Department of Corrections

3:17-cv-00188 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 11, 2017, three named individuals with disabilities who were incarcerated by New Jersey Department of Corrections (“NJDOC”) and the ACLU of New Jersey filed a class action complaint against NJDOC, New Jersey Department of Education (“NJDOE”), and the commissioners of each Department in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented by the ACLU of New Jersey, Disability Rights Advocates, and Proskauer Rose LLP, plaintiffs brought claims under the Individuals with …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Heyer v. United States Bureau of Prisons

5:11-ct-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 20, 2011

Closed Date: April 26, 2022

This case is about access to communication and auxiliary aids for deaf people in federal prison. On June 20, 2011, two deaf prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit under Bivens and claimed violations of the Rehabilitation Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration …
PRISON CONDITIONS
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-11222 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

On March 31, 2015, three incarcerated people filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), alleging that MDOC was discriminating against them and other deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and was assigned to Judge Sean Cox. The plaintiffs were represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and private counsel. The plaintiffs al…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez v. Trump

1:20-cv-01419 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2024

This case involves a dispute about visa processing. Following a March 20, 2020 decision by the State Department to cease most visa services, President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10014 on April 20, suspending the entry of all immigrants into the U.S. for two months, unless they qualified for an exception. Two months later, the entry suspension was extended to December 31, 2020 and expanded to include temporary nonimmigrant visas in Proclamation 10052. As a result, the State Departmen…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Ladapo

4:23-cv-00114 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 23, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit brought by transgender adolescents and their parents challenging Florida's ban on medical care for transgender minors (Board of Medicine, Rule 64B8-9.019, Fla. Admin. Code; and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, Rule 64B15-14.014, Fla. Admin. Code). The challenged bans prohibited the use of puberty blockers to stop or delay normal puberty as well as the use of hormones or hormone antagonists in order to affirm a person's perception of his or her sex if that perception was inconsis…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. There were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso County v. Texas, No. 17-cv-004…