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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-10814 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Trump Administration’s disruption of NIH grants to state research institutions. These disruptions include delays in the review and approval process of applications, as well as terminations of already-issued grants. Since January 2025, NIH canceled grant application meetings and indefinitely postponed scheduling future meetings. The agency also withheld final decisions on applications that had already been approved through the standard review process. Additionally, NIH s…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
San Francisco A.I.D.S. Foundation v. Trump

3:25-cv-01824 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged three executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in January 2025, which restricted federal funding for organizations that support transgender rights and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs. On February 20, 2025, nine nonprofits—San Francisco Aids Foundation, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, Inc., Los Angeles LGBT Center, Prisma Community Care, Lesbian and Gay Community Serv…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zinski v. Liberty University, Inc.

6:24-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 29, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case alleging that Liberty University discriminated against a transgender employee. On July 29, 2024, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit against her former employer, Liberty University, in the United States District Court for the Western District Court of Virginia. The plaintiff alleged that after she came out to her employer as transgender, the University terminated her employment and cited her transgender status as the reason. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU of Virginia, t…

Case Is Ongoing

EDUCATION
Alabama v. Cardona

7:24-cv-00533 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 29, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to the Biden administration's interpretation of Title IX. On April 19, 2024, the administration unveiled its Final Rule, which expanded Title IX's protections against sex discrimination in education. On April 29, 2024, four southern states and several nonprofit organizations focused on free speech, K-12 education and policy issues of concern to women filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the U.S. Department of Education.…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Council of Nonprofits v. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-00239 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's authority to suspend congressionally-appropriated federal financial assistance during a review to ensure that the spending accords with Administration priorities. On January 28, 2025, the National Council of Nonprofits and several other private entities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"). Represent…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Alabama

2:20-cv-01971 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved alleged unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s men’s prisons. On December 9, 2020, the DOJ filed this lawsuit in  the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Alabama Department of Corrections under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)(42 U.S.C. §1997). The DOJ alleged that the conditions of the prisons violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, following an investigation that found poor conditions and deliberate indiffer…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.A.V. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 8, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several class action challenges to the Trump Administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act ("AEA") to circumvent removal procedures and deport Venezuelan nationals without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On April 9, 2025, three Venezuelan men filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. They named as respondents President Donald J. Trump, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Sec…

Injunction Granted

EDUCATION
American Federation of Teachers v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-00628 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the legality of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights’ February 14, 2025 Dear Colleague Letter that advised educational institutions receiving federal funding to, among other things, stop teaching about systemic racism and race-related topics and ban all programming that supports Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Otherwise, they risked being deemed, or reported as, non-compliant and losing federal funding. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of le…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Washington v. The GEO Group Inc.

3:17-cv-05806 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case addressed whether a Washington State minimum wage law applied to immigration detainees. The state of Washington filed suit in the Pierce County Superior Court on September 20, 2017. The defendant was the GEO Group, Inc., a for-profit corporation that operated the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). Washington alleged two causes of action. First, they claimed defendant’s policy of paying immigrant detainees only $1 per day violated the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA), which set the mi…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Naretto v. City of Petaluma

3:21-cv-10027 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Closed Date: June 7, 2022

This lawsuit was filed on October 5, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs, representative of the residents of Steamer Landing Park camp, filed an ex parte application for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs requested that the court halt the expulsion of homeless persons from Steamer Landing Park by granting a TRO and preliminary injunction against the defendants' criminalization of homelessness pursuant to Pe…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)