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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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Associated Press v. Budowich

1:25-cv-00532 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is about the White House’s barring of the Associated Press (AP) from certain press access areas due to the AP’s refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14172 renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. On February 21, 2025 the Associated Press, represented by private counsel, brought this suit against the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, the Chief of Staff, and the White House Press Sec…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Chapter1 LLC v. United States

1:25-cv-00097 | U.S. Court of International Trade

Filed Date: May 29, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Trump Administration’s tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Plaintiff Chapter1 LLC, a small skincare business based in Las Vegas, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade on May 29, 2025, challenging the legality of tariffs imposed by President Trump through Executive Order 14257 and other related orders. Chapter1 LLC alleged that President Trump improperly invoked IEEPA to impose extensive tariffs o…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
State of New Jersey v. Bondi

1:25-cv-01807 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On June 9, 2025, fifteen states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland against the U.S. Department of Justice, the Attorney General, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and its Director, and several firearm advocates and groups. They challenged the federal government's change in position regarding forced reset triggers (FRTs). The government used…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. DOGE Service

1:25-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is a FOIA request to Trump Administration regarding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its activities. On February 20, 2025, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, naming Elon Musk, DOGE, the Office of Management and Budget, the National Archives and Records Administration, and their corresponding agency heads as Defendants. Plaintiff alleged that Defendants wrongfull…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Abrego Garcia v. Noem

8:25-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 15, 2025, as reported by several news outlets, the second Trump administration deported almost 300 noncitizens—mostly Venezuelan nationals and some Salvadoran nationals—to El Salvador without going through any legal process in front of an immigration judge. Upon arrival, they were sent to the country’s mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT. This lawsuit challenged the deportation of one of the Salvadoran nationals, who had actually won protection from removal several y…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Oregon v. Trump

1:25-cv-00077 | U.S. Court of International Trade

Filed Date: April 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged President Trump’s unilateral imposition under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China, and 57 other countries. No President has ever before cited IEEPA—which was enacted in 1977—to impose tariffs. The powers granted to the President by IEEPA can be leveraged only to respond to “an unusual or extraordinary threat,” which the plaintiffs alleged did not exist when the tariffs were instituted in February 2025. Add…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National Association of Immigration Judges v. Neal

1:20-cv-00731 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a policy of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) which placed restrictions on immigration judges who wish to speak or write publicly in their personal capacities about certain topics. The 2017 policy imposed a preapproval requirement on all immigration judges who wished to speak at public events in their personal capacities. The 2020 policy, which replaced the 2017 policy, said that immigration judges were prohibited from speaking in their personal capacities …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Perlmutter v. Blanche

1:25-cv-01659 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 22, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the removal of Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office by President Trump and Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General purportedly acting as Librarian of Congress. On May 8, 2025, President Trump removed Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, subsequently appointing Blanche as acting Librarian, an action Plaintiff alleges lacks statutory and constitutional authority. On May 10, 2025, the Trump administration informed Perlmutter of …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Jenner & Block LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-00916 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges President Trump's March 25, 2025, Executive Order (EO) 14246 titled "Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block." (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) Like similar EOs from President Trump in March 2025 that targeted other private law firms, EO 14246 purported to restrict access to federal buildings for Jenner's more than 900 attorneys and staff; instructed federal agencies not to meet or engage wit…