Support Article

How To Search Guide
Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:

Support Article

How To Search Guide
241 cases
Ordered by
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.M. v. Noem

2:25-cv-00747 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 16, 2025

This class action lawsuit challenges conditions at a temporary immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades. Built in June 2025, the facility consists of tents, trailers, chain-link fencing, and barbed wire, with a capacity of at least 3,000 people. It is surrounded by wetlands populated with alligators and venomous snakes. President Trump publicly stated that detainees would “learn how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” adding that “…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
W.M.M. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00059 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 16, 2025

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. In March 2025, President Trump issued Proclamation No. 10903, 90 Fed. Reg. 13034, invoking the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), 50 U.S.C. §21, to detain and remove Venezuelan nationals "who are members of TdA [a gang, Tren de Aragua]”  In J.G.G. v. Trump, twelve detainees and a putative class sought injunctive a…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court granted stay of removal

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Duffy

1:25-cv-01413 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's February 2025 attempt to rescind federal funding for the New York State's congestion pricing program in New York City. The federal government had previously agreed that New York State could assess tolls on vehicles entering federal highways around the city. New York State had already fully implemented the program beginning on January 5, 2025. On February 19, 2025, plaintiffs, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Triborough Bridge and Tu…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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…
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)

POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
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
Duncan v. Louisiana State

2:15-cv-05486 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2015

Closed Date: May 26, 2016

This was a case about alleged denial of the right to vote. On October 27, 2015, an individual sued the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Secretary of State Office, Louisiana Secretary of State, Tangipahoa Parish Council, Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court Office, Tangipahoa Parish Registrar of Voters Office, and Tangipahoa Parish Registrar of Voters in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The individual asserted claims under 18 U.S.C. § 96, 42 U.S.C. § 207(a), 42 U.S.C. …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of California v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS)

1:25-cv-12118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 29, 2025

On July 29, 2025, several states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaiʻi, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Secretary and the Centers …

Case Is Ongoing