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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ozturk v. Hyde

2:25-cv-00374 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On March 25, 2025, Turkish national and Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was abruptly detained by masked plainclothes agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. The federal government re…

Habeas Relief Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

2:25-cv-01963 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. This case challenges the detention and attempted deportation of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the campus protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University throughout the spring of 2024. Khalil was a lawful permanent resident o…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Fair Housing Council of Central Indiana, McGuffin v. Smitley

1:16-cv-00880 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2020

Plaintiffs filed suit in federal court on April 19, 2016, requesting compensatory and punitive damages, attorney fees and costs, injunctive relief to end a landlord's disability discrimination and a declaration that the landlord violated the housing discrimination and related state laws. Hon. William T. Lawrence of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, presided over the case. The Plaintiffs in this case were the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, Inc…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Davey v. Pierce County Council

3:21-cv-05068 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Closed Date: May 30, 2023

This case involves allegations of inhumane conditions in Washington's Pierce County Jail relating to plumbing problems and sewage backups. This lawsuit was initiated on January 25, 2021 when plaintiff filed a pro se complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington against Pierce County and individuals at the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. (The complaint was filed on behalf of two plaintiffs, but the court later dismissed one and ordered each to file their own indiv…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
King County v. Turner

2:25-cv-00814 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 2, 2025

Case Ongoing

On May 2, 2025, eight cities and counties across five states—Washington, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, and New York—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration, and their agency heads as Defendants. They challenged defendants' conditioning of Congressionally-appropriated grants—including funds meant to serve unhoused …

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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States of America v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

2:21-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

On February 5, 2021 an anonymous plaintiff, “Relator Alex Doe,” brought this civil fraud action on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana against Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and other Planned Parenthood affiliates in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division. The plaintiff sought to recover damages and civil penalties they alleged were owed to the United States, Texas, and Louisiana as a result of Planned Parenthood having presen…
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…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Doe v. State of Ohio

2:91-cv-00464 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 1991

Case Ongoing

This is a case about special education in Ohio's public schools. This lawsuit was brought on May 9, 1991, by a student (through his parent), a teacher, a local Board of Education, and a district superintendent. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and later by the Ohio Legal Rights Service, sued the state of Ohio, the State Board of Education, the state superintendent, and the state Department of Education. The plaintiffs sued under state constitutional and statutory law, 42 U.S.C. § …