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PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Hammond v. Department of Corrections

2:24-cv-00922 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 4, 2024

Case Ongoing

On March 4, 2024, six incarcerated individuals in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania challenging the constitutionality of solitary confinement in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The individuals sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, the Secretary of Corrections, the former Secretary of Corrections, the Executive Deputy Secretary for Institutional Operations at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and the Director of Psychology at th…

Case Transferred: Docket Closed

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

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Personal Services Contractor Association v. Trump

1:25-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and halt foreign aid funding. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14169, pausing all U.S. foreign development assistance for 90 days. Four days later, on January 24, the Secretary of State officially implemented the Executive Order, suspending all USAID programs and issuing “stop-work orders” for contracting officers. These actions occurred within th…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

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…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

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 …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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

Case Ongoing

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

PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Mid-America Milling Company v. U.S. Department of Transportation

3:23-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE). DBE was a legislatively mandated program, established in 1982, that ensured that federally-assisted contracts for highway, transit, and aviation projects were made available to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including women and certain racial and ethnic minority groups. While any small business owner may qualify as soc…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors - Harvard Faculty Chapter v. U.S. Department Of Justice

1:25-cv-10910 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges President Trump's actions against Harvard, including conditioning federal funds on the University's adoption of programmatic and structural changes based on alleged failures to address antisemitism. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On April 11, 2025, the American Association of University Professors and its Harvard Faculty Chapter filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for …

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Taylor v. Trump

1:25-cv-01161 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 16, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the decision of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, at the instigation of President Trump, to bypass statutorily-required procedures for reassignment of prisoners and transfer 37 inmates to ADX Florence, the harshest unit in the federal prison system. All of these prisoners—21 of whom are the plaintiffs in this case—had previously been serving federal death sentences commuted to life without parole by President Biden on December 23, 2024. This decision prompted then-President-…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

PRISON CONDITIONS
Chimenti v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 12, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

On June 12, 2015, three individuals incarcerated and suffering from complications due to Hepatitis C viral infections filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment, and of Article I § 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Represented by private counsel and the PA Institutional Law Project, the plaintiffs alleged that th…