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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…
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…
EDUCATION
State of Texas v. The United States of America

2:24-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 29, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case involves an attempt to block new Title IX rules from going into effect. On April 19, 2024, the Biden administration introduced its "Final Rule," which clarifies the interpretation of Title IX to broaden protections against sex discrimination in education. Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on April 29, 2024, against the United States of America, the U.S. Secretary of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, the Assistant Secretary f…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chasin v. District of Columbia

1:05-cv-01792 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2005

Case Ongoing

This case was one of two that challenged D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (DC Fire) rules prohibiting beards and long hair under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).  The plaintiffs, a group of DC Fire employees with religious convictions prohibiting them from shaving their beards, brought this lawsuit against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on September 9, 2005. The plaintiffs challenged a DC Fire rule which required …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CASA Inc. v. Trump

8:25-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
M.H. v. Jeppesen

1:22-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

In 2022, plaintiffs, transgender and nonbinary Idahoans on Medicaid, sued the state, alleging Idaho Medicaid had an unwritten policy of denying or delaying gender-affirming care.  On September 29, 2022, two private transgender Medicaid plaintiffs (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), represented by Idaho Legal Aid Services, sued the Director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (“DDHW”), the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid (“MDI”), and the Idaho Department of Health and Welf…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas

3:23-cv-01367 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 27, 2023

Case Ongoing

This class action challenged a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) practice known as the “CBP One Turnback Policy” (the “Turnback Policy”) which included turning back arriving noncitizens without CBP One appointments – scheduled via a smartphone application – at or near Class A Points of Entry (POE).  On July 27, 2024, Al Otro Lado, Inc and Haitian Bridge Alliance, two immigrants’ rights non-profits, and ten individual plaintiffs on behalf of similarly situated people, filed suit against the S…
EDUCATION
Kestenbaum v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

1:24-cv-10092 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case is about alleged antisemitism at Harvard University following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel.  The plaintiffs were Students Against Antisemitism (SAA), a not-for-profit corporation formed to combat antisemitism in higher education, and several of its members who were enrolled at Harvard, including one named student plaintiff. They brought this suit against Harvard University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on January 10, 2024. The plaintiffs br…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Yazzie v. Hobbs

3:20-cv-08222 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2021

In this case, six plaintiffs, all tribal members of Navajo Nation, challenged the constitutionality of Arizona’s requirement that Vote By Mail (“VBM”) ballots be received, not postmarked, by 7:00 PM of Election Day.  This case was filed on August 26, 2020 in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and assigned to Chief District Judge G. Murray Snow. The plaintiffs, represented by out-of-state private attorneys at Big Fire Law & Policy Group LLP, sued the Secretary of State …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors of the State University System

4:22-cv-00304 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

A group of Florida educators and students, including a constitutional law professor and several professors of race and gender studies, filed this complaint against Florida and various Boards of Governors, trustees, and commissioners of Florida public colleges and universities. Plaintiffs filed suit on August 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, and were represented by the ACLU, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a private la…