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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Boyle v. Trump

8:25-cv-01628 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the removal of three former Commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). On May 21, 2025, the commissioners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland against President Donald Trump, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Acting Chairman of CPSC. All three Plaintiffs had been nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate and were only removabl…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
LeBlanc v. United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

1:25-cv-00542 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the second Trump administration’s firings of two civil servants from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump administration, click here.) Trump nominated both plaintiffs to the PCLOB in 2018 during his first term as president, and the Senate confirmed their membership. On January 21, 2025, the Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel sent the pla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Dvortsin v. Noem

5:25-cv-00664 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the federal government’s attempt to deport a detained noncitizen mother and her five minor noncitizen children. The mother and children are currently in immigration detention and continue to seek asylum and humanitarian relief. On June 1, 2025, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national residing in Colorado, was charged with throwing Molotov cocktails and using a makeshift flamethrower at a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, injuring fifteen people. Soliman faces federal…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

2:25-cv-01963 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. This case challenges the detention and attempted deportation of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the campus protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University throughout the spring of 2024. Khalil was a lawful permanent resident o…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Quintero Chacón v. Dickerson

4:25-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

The petitioner in this case, a Venezuelan non-citizen, initially filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on February 10, 2025 pro se in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. In his initial petition, he requested that he be released from detention in Georgia, where he soon would have been held beyond the statutory limit.  The petitioner ceased challenging deportation but could not be deported as the parties agreed that Venezuela was not taking deportations. This…
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…
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…
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 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Chimenti v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 12, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

On June 12, 2015, three individuals incarcerated and suffering from complications due to Hepatitis C viral infections filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment, and of Article I § 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Represented by private counsel and the PA Institutional Law Project, the plaintiffs alleged that th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-cv-00233 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2024

This is a case about access to the Federal Register in prison. The plaintiff, who was incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit on February 22, 2019, against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Though the plaintiff's initial complaint was about an unrelated issue, in a subsequent amended complaint (filed January 10, 2020) the plaintiff brought a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act against the US Attorney Gener…