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PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Delaware County

5:22-cv-01405 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 8, 2022

Closed Date: March 5, 2024

This is a case about the exclusion of an inmate from programs due to his HIV positive status.  On April 8, 2022, a named plaintiff, represented by LAMBDA Legal and the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff filed suit against Delaware County, the GEO Group, a private for-profit correctional management company that operates George W. Hill Correctional Facility (GWHC), and multiple staff members at GWHC inclu…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.G.G. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00766 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

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. This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to circumvent removal procedures and order the immediate removal of Venezuelan nationals from the United States. On March 15, 2025, five detained Venezuelan nationals filed this class action lawsuit in the District …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

3:25-cv-02847 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Trump Administration's termination of funding for immigration lawyers representing unaccompanied children. It was filed on March 26, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, by Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Social Justice Collaborative, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, Estrella del Paso, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, Galveston-Houston Immigration Representation Project, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, Nat…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius

5:12-cv-01000 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 4, 2014

This case was about whether private companies were entitled to a religious exception to covering emergency contraception under the Affordable Care Act. Please note that this case was previously titled Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores. Sylvia Burwell was automatically substituted as petitioner when she was approved by the U.S. Senate as the Secretary of Health and Human Services after being nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Kathleen Sebelius following Sebelius' resignation on Apr. 10,…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Welch v. Brown

2:12-cv-02484 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2012

Closed Date: Jan. 31, 2017

This case challenged a California law (SB 1772) that prohibited mental health providers from engaging in “sexual orientation change efforts” with patients under 18 years of age. SB 1172 defined “sexual orientation change efforts” to include any practices that sought to change not only sexual orientation, but also behavior and gender expression. It also provided that mental health providers who violated the prohibition would be subject to discipline.  The plaintiffs are a group of mental health …
POLICING
Asante-Chioke v. Dowdle

2:22-cv-04587 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether police officers used excessive force on a Black man experiencing a mental health crisis. The complaint alleged the following facts. On November 21, 2021, local and state police officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana responded to an alert that there was a 52-year-old Black man walking along a highway. The man appeared to be visibly distressed and was carrying in his hands what were later identified to be a gun and a knife. Upon arriving on the scene, the officers in…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump

8:25-cv-00337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the legality of two executive orders issued by President Trump, EO 14168 and EO 14187. The EOs aimed to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals under the age of nineteen. On February 4, 2025, PFLAG Inc., alongside the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (GLMA) and several individual plaintiffs, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the U.S…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chicago Women in Trades v. Trump

1:25-cv-02005 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Trump’s Executive Orders 14151 and 14173, which aimed to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The plaintiffs were the Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT), a nonprofit organization that supports women entering skilled trades. They filed suit on February 26, 2025 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Department o…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Talbott v. Trump

1:25-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025 executive order banning openly transgender people from serving in the military, which reversed the U.S. Armed Forces’ policy of permitting transgender people who meet military standards to serve. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of transgender rights-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 27, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directin…
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 …