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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 …
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:25-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On February 23, 2025, a research assistant at Harvard University filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. When she tried to enter the United States o February 16, 2025, the federal government detained her at Boston Logan Airport and revoked her J-1 visa for the alleged "smuggling" of frog embryos. She alleged that her detention and the revocation of her visa violated th…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Poot v. San Francisco County Sheriff's Department

4:19-cv-02722 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 20, 2019

Closed Date: March 31, 2023

This case involves allegations of sleep denial and disruption brought by eight pre-trial detainees in jails under the control of San Francisco County. On May 20, 2019, eight pre-trial detainees housed in two jails under the control of San Francisco County filed a putative class action on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs alleged that conditions in two San Francisco County Jails led to denial and disr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hampton v. State of California

3:21-cv-03058 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about conditions at San Quentin State Prison during the Covid-19 pandemic. On April 27, 2021, the spouse of a person who had died while incarcerated at San Quentin filed this wrongful death suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of herself and as successor in interest for the deceased, against the State of California, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”), San Quentin State Prison, and named and unnamed 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 …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.S.R. v. Trump

3:25-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), 50 U.S.C. §21,  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 AEA to detain and remove Venezuelan nationals "who are members of TdA" [a gang, Tren de Aragua] (the Proclamation). In J.G.G. v. Trump, twelve detainees and a putative class sought injunc…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Climate United Fund v. Citibank

1:25-cv-00698 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 8, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the freezing of federal grant funds meant for green infrastructure projects. Plaintiffs, the Climate United Fund, a non profit financial institution, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The case was assigned to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. The plaintiffs named Citibank, N.A., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the EPA Administrator as the defendants. Climate United sought injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Dehart v. Stevens-Henager College

1:05-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2005

Closed Date: March 28, 2008

This is a case about gender-based employment discrimination. This case was brought on September 22, 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah by a former employee of Stevens-Henager College who alleged that she was paid a lower salary because of her gender, in violation of the Equal Pay Act ("EPA") and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin). In her complaint, the plaintiff also all…