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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
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

This case challenged the freezing of federal grant funds meant for green infrastructure projects. On March 8, 2025, the Climate United Fund filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Citibank, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the EPA Administrator. Plaintiffs sought injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming that the defendants unlawfully blocked access to grant funds that had already been awarded and disbursed. The case was assigned to Judg…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Reversed

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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Abrego Garcia v. Noem

8:25-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

On March 15, 2025, as reported by several news outlets, the second Trump administration deported almost 300 noncitizens—mostly Venezuelan nationals and some Salvadoran nationals—to El Salvador without going through any legal process in front of an immigration judge. Upon arrival, they were sent to the country’s mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT. This lawsuit challenged the deportation of one of the Salvadoran nationals, who had actually won protection from removal several y…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

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
Voting Rights Defense Project v. Padilla

3:16-cv-02739 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 20, 2016

Closed Date: April 13, 2017

On 20 May 2016, the Voting Rights Defense Project, the American Independent Party and two individuals in their capacity as eligible California voters brought an action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against: the Secretary of State of California, the chief of Alameda County Registrar of Voters and the Director of the San Francisco Board of Elections, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to protect the voting rights of no-party-preference (“NPP”) voters in…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Votevets Action Fund v. Detzner

4:18-cv-00524 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 22, 2019

On November 12, 2018, three Plaintiffs--a veterans' voters' rights group, the Democratic National Committee, and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee--filed suit against the Florida Secretary of State in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida, challenging the application of Florida law that required domestic mail-in ballots to be rejected if they were not received by the supervisor of elections by 7 p.m. on Election Day.  After Senior Judge William Stafford recused, the …

Temporary Restraining Order Denied

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stein v. Cortes

2:16-cv-06287 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2020

On December 5, 2016, plaintiffs, who consisted of the Green Party presidential candidate and a Pennsylvania voter that had voted in the 2016 presidential election (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”), filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendants”).  Both Defendants worked for the Pennsylvania Department of St…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National TPS Alliance v. Noem

3:25-cv-05687 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

This case is about the federal government’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. On July 7, 2025, the National TPS Alliance and private plaintiffs who are individual TPS holders filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its Secretary, and the United States under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment. The case was assigned to Judge Trina…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Academy of Pediatrics v. Kennedy

1:25-cv-11916 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy issued a "Secretarial Directive" promising that the COVID vaccine was removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedules for healthy children and pregnant women. This action runs contrary to his promises during his Senate confirmation promise that he would not do anything as secretary that "makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines." On July 7, 2025, several medical organizations, as well as an in…

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