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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of California v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:19-cv-04975 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from impleme…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
POLICING
United States v. Johnson

1:12-cv-01349 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

On December 20, 2012, following a two-year investigation, the United States of America filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The US sued the Sheriff of Alamance County, North Carolina. The US, represented by the Department of Justice, brought the action under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 and asked the court for declaratory judgment that the Alamance County Sheriff's Office had engaged in conduct infringing rights protected by the United States Co…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic National Committee v. Bostelmann

3:20-cv-00249 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: March 18, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2021

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, states all around the country attempted to conduct presidential primary elections. Simultaneously, Americans were practicing “social distancing,” sheltering in place, and avoiding going out in public and interacting with others as much as possible. Individuals, especially those over the age of sixty and those with preexisting conditions like asthma and autoimmune disorders, were encouraged to stay home as much as possible. Schools and daycares closed across …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Steward v. Perry

5:10-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2010

Case Ongoing

Adults with developmental disabilities who were institutionalized filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging that they, along with the class of similarly situated individuals, were institutionalized unnecessarily as a result of the policies of the State of Texas. There are also two organizational Plaintiffs: the Arc of Texas and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. The Plaintiffs alleged that Texas failed to provide adequate habilitation and…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Doty v. County of Lassen

2:89-cv-01019 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 25, 1989

Closed Date: 1994

On July 25, 1989, prisoners at the old Lassen County Jail ("Old Jail") filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the County of Lassen and the Sheriff of the County of Lassen. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prisoner Rights Union and private counsel, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that conditions in the Old Jail violated the First, Fourth and Eighth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States as applied to the…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Garcia v. Vilsack

1:00-cv-02445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2000

Closed Date: 2014

On October 13, 2000, a group of Hispanic farmers and ranchers filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged that the "USDA ha[d] maintained, and continue[d] to maintain, a system of administering its farm credit and non-credit benefit programs that gives virtually unfettered discretion to local officials to enforce highly subjective eligibility criteria that, in…