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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orr v. Trump

1:25-cv-10313 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

Transgender and nonbinary Americans sued the Trump Administration over its changes to existing passport policy, which required new passports issued by the State Department to reflect applicants’ sex assigned at birth. President Trump’s Executive Order 14168 directed the Secretary of State to “implement changes to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex” as defined within the order. Under thi…
EDUCATION
Malick v. Croswell-Lexington District Schools

2:22-cv-11126 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs in this case alleged that their daughter’s school failed to adequately protect her from anti-Black harassment and bullying. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs filed suit against the Croswell-Lexington School District and the district school board in the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Michigan on May 23, 2022. The plaintiffs sued under 42 USC § 1983 (based on alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses), …
LABOR RIGHTS
Rittmann v. Amazon.com Inc

2:16-cv-01554 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case concerns Amazon Flex drivers: whether Amazon properly classifies them as independent contractors and whether their disputes with Amazon are subject to mandatory arbitration. Background Amazon classifies Flex drivers as independent contractors—not as Amazon employees. Amazon Flex drivers use their personal vehicles to deliver products from Amazon facilities to end customers. Flex drivers use an app to claim delivery “blocks” (essentially, shifts). Amazon pays drivers a flat fee for del…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.

1:08-cv-00827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case involves allegations of abuse and torture suffered by four Iraqi men who were detained at Abu Ghraib in 2003. On June 30, 2008, an Iraqi civilian who was imprisoned and allegedly tortured in an Iraq prison filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against two defense contractors—CACI (and its wholly owned subsidiary, collectively known as “CACI Defendants”) and L-3—and a named individual who allegedly worked for CACI as a screener and interro…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Munday v. Beaufort County

9:20-cv-02144 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit concerning the allegedly unconstitutional manner in which female inmates were searched at the Beaufort County Detention Center (“BCDC”) in Beaufort, South Carolina. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged that between February, 2015 through May, 2020, BCDC had a policy of strip searching all female pre-classification detainees upon entry into the facility, but not similarly-situated male detainees. It was brought by two individual female pre-classification detainees at BCDC who were…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Garnett v. Zeilinger

1:17-cv-01757 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2020

This is a case about delays in receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in Washington, DC. On August 28, 2017, four recipients of the SNAP and Bread for the City, a nonprofit  that provides  safety-net support to the District of Columbia’s low-income community, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed suit against the  Director of the District of Columbia Department of Human Services (DHS) alleging the …
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,…
POLICING
Wilkins v. City of Chicago

1:23-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) alleged pattern and practice of race-based and discriminatory police practices in traffic stops conducted since 2016. On June 26, 2023, five plaintiffs who had been repeatedly stopped by CPD officers, on what they claimed was limited suspicion, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged unlawful race and national origin discrimination in violation of …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Twitter v. Barr [Holder]

4:14-cv-04480 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2024

[Note: This case was previously known as Twitter v. Holder, then Twitter v. Lynch, then Twitter v. Sessions] On October 7, 2014, Twitter -- an online social networking service -- filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Administrative Procedure Act. Twitter, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CASA Inc. v. Trump

8:25-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…