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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…
POLICING
People of the State of New York v. Wallkill

7:01-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2006

This case involved misconduct by the Wallkill Police Department (WPD). On January 18, 2001, the Attorney General filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Town of Wallkill (Town), seeking injunctive relief to reform and monitor the WPD. The case was assigned to District Judge Colleen McMahon. The lawsuit was the offshoot of the Attorney General's investigation of the WPD. The investigation revealed a pattern of pervasive misconduct, including…
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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Rona v. Trump

1:25-cv-03114 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

Two U.S.-based law professors challenged the lawfulness of President Trump’s February 6, 2025 Executive Order “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court” (EO 14203), in which Trump authorized civil and criminal penalties on any U.S. persons who provided services to or for the benefit of certain sanctioned persons. Trump claimed, in the EO, that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had “without a legitimate basis, asserted jurisdiction over and opened preliminary investigations co…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Jane Doe v. Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

1:14-cv-03906 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2014

Closed Date: Oct. 12, 2016

This is a case about a woman who was sexually assaulted while in the custody of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH).  On December 16, 2014 Jane Doe sued in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division, for damages she sustained and for injunctive relief to protect her from future assaults. She alleged that while in DHMH custody, in two separate facilities, she was not protected from assault, despite the fact that the Department was aware of her his…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Viloria Aviles v. Trump

2:25-cv-00611 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On April 3, 2025, a Venezuelan citizen detained in Nevada and represented by the University of Nevada Las Vegas Immigration Clinic filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. He challenged the government’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to depo…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Schiff v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-10595 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the removal of medical articles from federal government websites. On March 12, 2025, two doctors filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They named the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and their corresponding agency heads as Defendants. The Plaintiffs published peer-reviewed articles on a government-run patient safety website (PSNet),…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harris v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00412 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's termination of a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board. On February 11, 2025, Cathy Harris, a duly appointed/confirmed Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She sued President Trump, the Secretary of Treasury, the Acting Chairman of the Merit System Protection Board, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Director and Deputy …
CHILD WELFARE
Katie A. v. Bonta

2:02-cv-05662 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California on July 18, 2002, by the class of children and young adults who (a) are in the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (b) have a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric impairment; and (c) need individualized mental health services. The suit is against County and State agencies for neglecting their responsibilities to provide mental health care services to foster children in California. Plaintiffs soug…
EDUCATION
Oklahoma State Department of Education v. United States of America

5:24-cv-00459 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 6, 2024

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2025

On May 6, 2024, the Oklahoma Department of Education filed suit against the US Secretary of Education, the Department of Education's (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, and the DOE's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Oklahoma sought to challenge DOE's notice that in the enforcement of Title IX's prohibitions on sex discrimination, that DOE would interpret the term "sex" to include sexual orientation and gender ide…