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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Suri v. Trump

1:25-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

This case concerns the retaliatory detention and attempted deportation of a noncitizen allegedly targeted for his constitutionally protected speech and familial associations. On March 18, 2025, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and Georgetown University postdoctoral scholar, filed a habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, challenging his sudden immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Represented by the ACLU of Virgi…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hernandez v. Noem

1:25-cv-02344 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 21, 2025

This case challenged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use of I-220A as a release mechanism.  The plaintiffs in this case are three Cuban nationals who were apprehended while entering the United States and processed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Under Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the plaintiffs were subject to mandatory detention until the conclusion of their removal proceedings. The plaintiffs allege that ICE unlawfully deviated fr…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.G.M.L. v. Kristi Noem

1:25-cv-02942 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2025

This case followed media reports revealing the Trump administration's plans to summarily deport hundreds of Guatemalan minors. At 1:02am on August 31, 2025, ten Guatemalan unaccompanied minors (ages 10–17), represented by the National Immigration Law Center, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated children. The suit named multiple federal agencies and their respective leaders, including the Department of Homela…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chicago Headline Club v. Noem

1:25-cv-12173 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2025

This case was brought by journalists and peaceful protesters who were shot with rubber bullets and pepper sprayed by federal law enforcement officers outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, which the Trump Administration has been using as a staging ground for federal troops and ICE agents. Plaintiffs allege they were subjected to brutality and arrest despite presenting no threat to the federal officers, protesting peacefully, or being clearly marked as journalists.  On October 6, 2025,…

Case Is Ongoing

EDUCATION
National Council of Nonprofits v. McMahon

1:25-cv-13242 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On November 3, 2025, plaintiffs, including the National Council of Nonprofits and various cities and counties, filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They allege that Defendants have now promulgated a Rule that purports to allow the Secretary of Education to selectively disqualify employers from participation in Public Service Loan Forgiveness on the Secretary’s determi…

Case Is Ongoing

EDUCATION
Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

2:25-cv-00781 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: April 28, 2025

This lawsuit challenges the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle—via mass layoffs and office closures—the Head Start program, a Congressionally-established federal program that provides young children of low-income families “a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs.” Since its launch in 1965, Head Start has “successfully improved the educational, health, social, and economic outcomes for families and children, particularly Black…

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

April 28, 2025

Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program v. Kennedy

May 13, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy Jr.

May 16, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order/To Postpone Effective Date of Agency Action

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy

July 21, 2025

Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order/ To Postpone Effective Date of Agency Action

Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Assistance and Education Program v. Kennedy

July 21, 2025

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Preliminary Injunction Granted

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-13165 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2025

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On October 28, 2025, twenty-six states, the District of Columbia, and two governors sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Secretary Brooke Rollins, OMB, and Director Russell Vought for suspending SNAP benefits for November 2025 during a federal government shutdown. Plaintiffs argued this suspension was unprecedented and illegal, as Congress has never before allowed SNAP benefits to lapse during a funding gap, and USDA still poss…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chiles v. Salazar

1:22-cv-02287 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2022

This case raises a free speech challenge to the Colorado state ban on conversion therapy for viewpoint discrimination. The question raised is whether the First Amendment bars states from imposing discipline on health care providers for providing treatment to children that the legislature has reasonably determined to fall below the professional standard of care. In March 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.  On September 5, 2022, Kelly Chiles – a licensed counselor within Colora…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Pending in Supreme Court

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
City of Seattle v. Trump

2:25-cv-01435 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 31, 2025

This case challenged provisions of Executive Order No. 14173 (the "Anti-Diversity Order") and Executive Order No. 14168 (the "Gender Order"), which imposed new conditions on recipients of federal contracts and grants. The City of Seattle contended that the Executive Orders unlawfully imposed vague conditions on federal funding, thereby jeopardizing essential municipal services such as transportation, housing, and public safety by threatening to withhold funds based on policies promoting diversi…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Oversight v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-02390 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

This case challenges DHS’s failure to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests related to the Executive Order’s revival of the Alien Registration Act. On his first day of his second term, President Trump signed Executive Order 14159, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” directing the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that all previously unregistered non-citizens comply with the Alien Registration Act of 1940, also known as the Smith…

Case Is Ongoing