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PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. McHenry

1:25-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's implementation of an Executive Order targeting transgender individuals by denying them legal recognition under federal law. The plaintiff, a transgender woman incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She sued President Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney General, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff sought emergency declaratory and injunctive r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-01096 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

Closed Date: June 17, 2025

This case challenged the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to terminate plaintiffs’ environmental grants without notice or substantive reason. These grants, awarded in 2024 under the Biden Administration, comprised $8 million given directly to each plaintiff and access to a further $52 million for plaintiffs to distribute among other community-based environmental initiatives in their respective cities. In February 2025—under the Trump Administration—plaintiffs each received …

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Rhode Island v. Trump

1:25-cv-00128 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

This case challenged President Trump’s March 14, 2025, executive order directing seven congressionally created agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), to cut their operations and expenditures to only those explicitly required by statute. Twenty-one U.S. states, which received hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and funding from the curtailed agencies and worked closely alongside those agencies on matters …

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chung v. Trump

1:25-cv-02412 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, a Columbia undergraduate and lawful permanent resident filed this complaint and petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the government's allegedly retaliatory immigration enforcement actions against her in response to her participation in pro-Palestine campus protests. Plaintiff sued President Trump and several high-ranking officials, including the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secret…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
American Civil Rights Union v. Rodriguez

7:16-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 4, 2016

This is a case about an Election Administrator’s alleged failure to maintain voter lists and produce records and data related to said efforts, as required under federal law. On March 4, 2016, the American Civil Rights Unions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Starr County Election Administrator under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). Represented by counsel, the plaintiff sought declaratory and…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Paher v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Closed Date: July 31, 2020

This case challenged the Nevada Secretary of State's and County Administrators' plan to conduct an all-mail election for the 2020 primary election in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Three individual residents of Nevada filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on April 21, 2020.  Plaintiffs sued Nevada's Secretary of State and Washoe County's Registrar of Voters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constituti…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Connecticut v. Merrill

3:20-cv-00467 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 4, 2020

Closed Date: April 29, 2021

This is a case about the constitutionality of Connecticut’s petitioning process for unaffiliated and minor party candidates who did not have automatic ballot access during the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 4, 2020, the Libertarian Party of Connecticut (“LPCT”) and LPCT-nominated candidates for State Senate and United States Congress jointly filed suit against the Secretary of State and Governor of Connecticut in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The case was assigned to Dis…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Voting Rights Defense Project v. Padilla

3:16-cv-02739 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 20, 2016

Closed Date: April 13, 2017

On 20 May 2016, the Voting Rights Defense Project, the American Independent Party and two individuals in their capacity as eligible California voters brought an action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against: the Secretary of State of California, the chief of Alameda County Registrar of Voters and the Director of the San Francisco Board of Elections, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to protect the voting rights of no-party-preference (“NPP”) voters in…