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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Vera Institute of Justice v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-01643 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2025

Closed Date: July 7, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s abrupt termination of hundreds of federal grants in April 2025. On May 21, 2025, five nonprofits filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Justice, the Attorney General, and the Office of Justice Programs and its acting head. The Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants' actions exceeded their executive authority and violated the Due Process Clause, the Take Care Claus…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EDUCATION
Southern Education Foundation v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-01079 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

In 2022, the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) was awarded a five-year, discretionary grant by the Department of Education (ED) to operate the Equity Assistance Center-South (EAC-South). This grant was terminated abruptly by President Trump’s Executive Order 14173, which directed the ED to terminate funding for programs that promote or take part in DEI initiatives. On April 9, 2025, represented by private counsel, the Southern Education Foundation filed this lawsuit against President Donald T…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

EDUCATION
NAACP v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-01120 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is about a challenge to the U.S. Department of Education’s efforts to restrict Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in federally funded educational institutions. On April 15, 2025, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case was assigned to District Judge Dabney Friedrich. The organization sued the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), its Secretary, and its Assi…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orr v. Trump

1:25-cv-10313 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Transgender and nonbinary Americans sued the Trump Administration over its changes to passport policy, which required new passports issued by the State Department to reflect applicants’ sex assigned at birth. President Trump’s Executive Order 14168 directed the Secretary of State to “implement changes to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex” as defined within the order. Under this policy,…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2:24-cv-00173 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2024

Closed Date: May 15, 2025

This case is a follow-up to a case brought by Texas against the EEOC about its similar 2022 workplace harassment guidance regarding transgender employees; in that case, District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk ruled that the EEOC exceeded its statutory rulemaking by “...conflat[ing] protected class status with all correlated conduct.” Texas v. EEOC, 2022 WL 4835346 at *13 (N.D. Tex. 2022). This case challenges the EEOC’s April 2024 guidance under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act about workplac…

Judgment for Plaintiff

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…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

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…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

LABOR RIGHTS
American Center for International Labor Solidarity v. Chavez-Deremer

1:25-cv-01128 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the U.S. Department of Labor’s decision to terminate all international cooperative agreements administered by the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB). On April 15, 2025, represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, three nonprofit organizations—the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center), the American Institutes for Research (AIR), and the Global March Against Child Labour—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Distr…

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Hope v. Harris

9:18-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…

Case Is Ongoing

Reversed

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Hart v. Clendenin

5:20-cv-01559 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2020

Closed Date: July 16, 2021

This case is about the health and safety of individuals confined in close quarters during a pandemic. The plaintiffs brought this class action lawsuit in federal court on Aug. 5, 2020, because they and others similarly situated were at risk of becoming severely ill or dying from COVID-19 while being held at Patton State Hospital, one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the country. Defendants held plaintiffs at this locked facility pursuant to involuntary psychiatric commitments. The defend…