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The City of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-01510 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s reversal of previously approved federal emergency shelter funding to the City of New York and the termination of the underlying grant program. On February 21, 2025, the City of New York filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against President Donald Trump, FEMA, DHS, the Treasury Department, and associated officials. The case was assigned to Judge Jennifer H. Rearden. The lawsuit arose out of FEMA’s She…

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Guerrero-Sandoval v. Bondi

2:25-cv-00559 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 19, 2025

On May 19, 2025, a noncitizen filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on behalf of her unborn child and her nine-year-old son, a United States citizen. She challenged her own removal from the United States, alleging that it would violate the equal protection rights of her children, their Ninth and Tenth Amendment rights, and various international treaties. The case was assigned to District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. Plaintiffs filed a motion for …

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kaimowitz v. Supervisor of Elections

1:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

This is a case about Florida’s judicial election system and whether excluding unopposed judicial candidates from ballots violates voting rights. On July 15, 2016, the plaintiff, a disbarred attorney proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Gainesville Division. The plaintiff sued the Supervisor of Elections for Alachua County, John Harkness (Florida Bar executive director), Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Inc. (“EJC…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Betances v. Fischer

1:11-cv-03200 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 2011

On May 11, 2011, three individuals given extrajudicial sentences of post-release supervision filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The named defendants were the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and the New York State Division of Parole (DOP). They claimed that the defendants administratively assigned sentences of post-release supervision (PRS) and that only a judge could impose an additio…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Montana Green Party v. Stapleton

6:18-cv-00087 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2018

Closed Date: March 30, 2022

This case involved the State of Montana’s signature requirement for the recognition of a political party, particularly Montana’s per-legislative-district signature requirement. On August 13, 2018, eight residents and registered voters in the State of Montana, along with the Montana Green Party, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Helena). The Defendant is the Secretary of State for the State of Montana. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. Plaintiffs ci…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Abrego Garcia v. Noem

8:25-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

On March 15, 2025, as reported by several news outlets, the second Trump administration deported almost 300 noncitizens—mostly Venezuelan nationals and some Salvadoran nationals—to El Salvador without going through any legal process in front of an immigration judge. Upon arrival, they were sent to the country’s mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT. This lawsuit challenged the deportation of one of the Salvadoran nationals, who had actually won protection from removal several y…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

3:25-cv-02847 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2025

On March 21, 2025, the Trump administration officially terminated funding for legal representation for unaccompanied immigrant children. This case challenges this action. On March 26, 2025, Community Legal Services and other non-profit legal services and advocacy groups for immigrants and refugees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), and th…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New Jersey v. Trump

1:25-cv-10139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Birke v. The 538 Individual Members of the Electoral College

2:16-cv-08432 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2017

On November 14, 2016, Plaintiff, an individual voter, filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the Central District of California. Plaintiff alleged that due to the wide margin between popular votes received by Hillary Clinton and by President-Elect Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential election, the value of each Clinton vote counted as approximately 0.99 of each Trump vote. Plaintiff stated that under the Fifth Amendment, citizens have a fundamental right to have their v…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…