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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Sanchez Puentes v. Garite

3:25-cv-00127 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 16, 2025

Case Ongoing

In this case, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ordered the release of two Venezuelans, married to each other, whom the government was attempting to deport pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act. The court held that the government had failed to establish that the petitioners were, as alleged, members of Tren de Aragua, and granted habeas relief on that basis on April 25, 2025.     The two petitioners in this habeas action entered the United States in October 13, 2022, and wer…
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
Wilcox v. Trump

1:25-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to the second Trump administration's termination of Gwynne Wilcox, the Chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to the second Trump administration, click here.) The plaintiff in this case was fired on January 27, 2025 by President Trump from her positions as Chair and member of the National Labor Relations Board, even though her term was not set to expire until 2028.  She filed this l…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
W.B. v. Noem

4:25-cv-03407 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 17, 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. On April 17, 2025, an international student—performing technical postgraduate work after obtaining a PhD  on an F-1 visa--filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the Secretary of Homel…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Johnson v. Cody-Kilgore Unified School District

4:21-cv-03103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: May 17, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case was filed after two Lakota children had their hair cut twice, contrary to their traditional and religious beliefs, by school employees during lice checks, the second time after the parents of the children voiced concerns. Two parents and two students, represented by the ACLU of Nebraska, filed suit against the Cody-Kilgore Unified School District and two school employees in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on May 17, 2021, alleging that the school had an unwritten …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
DigitalDesk, Inc. v. Bexar County, Texas

5:23-cv-00886 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 17, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case involves an equal protection challenge to a county-run pandemic relief program in Texas. San Antonio-based software company DigitalDesk and its president, represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), filed suit against Bexar County and a nonprofit that supports small business loans in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on July 17, 2023. The plaintiff alleged that his company was denied funding through a county pandemic assistance program beca…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones v. Trump

1:25-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the second Trump Administration's Executive Order 14166 (“Executive Order”), which mandated the transfer of transgender women incarcerated in federal women’s prisons to men’s facilities and denied access to gender-affirming care. On February 10, 2025, an adult transgender woman incarcerated in a women’s federal prison filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump in his official capacity, the Depart…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago v. City of Chicago

1:18-cv-03399 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

This action challenges the state of Illinois’ housing practices for alleged failure to comply with federal disability accessibility law. On May 13, 2018, Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, Inc., an Illinois-based disability advocacy nonprofit, sued the City of Chicago in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern District. Plaintiff observed that Chicago had developed and supported affordable housing initiatives (“Affordable Rental Housing Program”) since 1988 with th…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
RFE/RL, Inc. v. Lake [Radio Free Europe]

1:25-cv-00799 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s freezing of Congressionally appropriated funds to the plaintiff, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a nonprofit journalism organization. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and Judge Royce C. Lamberth was appointed to the case. RFA sued the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) along with agency heads. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as …