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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

This case challenged the Trump administration’s 2025 suspension and termination of federal funding to Harvard University in response to alleged antisemitism on campus. (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 (AAUP), its Harvard Faculty Chapter (AAUP–Harvard), and the United Auto Workers (UAW) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Di…

Judgment for Plaintiff

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-00345 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 21, 2025

This case challenged the revocation of various exemptions under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). The PRWORA is part of the federal welfare system and governs the eligibility of noncitizens for Federal, State, and local public benefits. The statute provides definitions of "alien," "qualified alien," and "federal public benefit," and also provides exemptions for certain public benefits such as emergency medical care and short-term, in-kind emer…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-11816 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 24, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's cancellation of numerous previously awarded federal grants to the plaintiffs under a rule promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in 2024 that allows the termination of grants "if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.” In February 2025, President Trump ordered agencies "to review all existing covered contracts and grants and, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law, terminate or modify…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Huffman

1:25-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2025

On January 22, 2025, Make the Road New York (MRNY), a progressive grassroots immigrant-led organization, filed this suit to challenge the Trump Administration’s expansion of the "expedited removal" process.  On January 20, the Administration had issued Executive Order 14159, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion," directing such expansion. One day later, on January 21, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule that authorized the application of expedited removal -…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Newsom v. Trump

3:25-cv-04870 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 9, 2025

This case challenged the federal deployment of the California National Guard to protect federal property and immigration officials from protesters in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. On June 9, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California filed suit in the Northern District of North California, challenging recent actions by President Trump in deploying the National Guard in the Los Angeles area. On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers carried out multiple e…

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hoffard v. Cochise County

4:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 3, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case about a physically disabled individual who was unable to vote because the County of Cochise, Arizona removed curbside voting. On June 30, 2020, Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in United States District Court of Arizona. The Plaintiff sued Lisa Marra in her official capacity as Director of Cochise County Elections Department, and Cochise County under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pavek v. Simon

0:19-cv-03000 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

This case is about a Minnesota law, Minn. Stat. § 204D.13(2), that requires general election ballots to list the major political party candidates in reverse order based on the average number of votes their party received in the last state general election. Because the Minnesota Democratic Party, called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), received the highest average vote share in the 2018 general election, the ballot order statute required DFL candidates to be listed last on the 2020 gener…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

Appeal Dismissed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger

1:18-cv-05391 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2018

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2022

Two voter-rights advocacy organizations and four religious non-profit organizations brought actions against the Georgia Secretary of State, the State Election Board, and members of the State Election Board alleging constitutional violations and violations of the Voting Rights Act.  The original complaint was filed on November 27, 2018, by the two voter-rights groups.  The complaint was amended twice.  The four religious non-profit organizations joined as plaintiffs as part of the first amendmen…