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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Public Citizen, Inc. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00164 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

On January 20, 2025, after President Trump signed an executive order to establish the federal "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), two non-profit organizations (Public Citizen, Inc. and State Democracy Defenders Fund) and an organization representing federal government employees (American Federation of Government Employees), filed this lawsuit against Trump and the Office of Management and Budget challenging the legality of DOGE under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The case…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. v. De Moraes

8:25-cv-00411 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a Brazilian judge’s authority to suspend social media accounts held in the United States. On February 19, 2025, Rumble Inc. and Trump Media and Technology Corp., two private corporations, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued Alexandre de Moraes, the President of the Superior Electoral Court, Brazil’s highest court, under the Declaratory Judgment Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that …
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
J.G.G. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00766 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 15, 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. This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to circumvent removal procedures and order the immediate removal of Venezuelan nationals from the United States. On March 15, 2025, five detained Venezuelan nationals filed this class action lawsuit in the District …
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…
POLICING
Cottman v. Baltimore Police Department

1:21-cv-00837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Baltimore Police Department (“BPD”) policy and practice of searching, seizing, retaining, and destroying the personal property of victims of violent crimes. On April 1, 2021, three plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit against BPD and the City of Baltimore in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Represented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that BPD’s pract…
POLICING
Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles

22STCP0400 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Los Angeles’s cash bail policy, which allowed the city and county of Los Angeles to demand cash bail from arrestees who had not yet been arraigned. On November 14, 2022,  six arrestees who had been held in jail awaiting a judicial determination on the conditions of their release pending further judicial proceedings filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, seeking a preliminary injunction. They filed in California state court under § 1983 and …
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
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) suspension of federal funding awards to and termination of cooperative agreements with non-governmental organizations that partnered with the government to provide refugee resettlement assistance through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). DOS claimed these actions were consistent with President Trump’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order 14169 “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” (EO 14169).  On February 18, 202…
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…