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Revolution Wind, LLC v. Burgum

1:25-cv-02999 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2025

This case challenges implementation of a Presidential Memorandum that halted all wind energy development within the Outer Continental Shelf without the proper procedural mechanisms. President Trump released the Memorandum, “Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects”, on the first day of his Administration, Jan. 20, 2025.  On September 4, 2025, Revolution Wi…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of Texas

7:25-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This case, brought by the federal government, challenged a Texas law that allowed noncitizens unlawfully present in the U.S. to receive in-state tuition rates. Federal law prohibited unlawfully present "aliens" from being eligible for any postsecondary education benefit that is not equally available to U.S. citizens. 8 U.S.C. § 1623(a). In-state tuition rates were available to certain noncitizens in Texas, but not to U.S. citizens who resided in states other than Texas. On June 4, 2025, the U.S…

Injunction Granted

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
Birke v. The 538 Individual Members of the Electoral College

2:16-cv-08432 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2017

On November 14, 2016, Plaintiff, an individual voter, filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the Central District of California. Plaintiff alleged that due to the wide margin between popular votes received by Hillary Clinton and by President-Elect Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential election, the value of each Clinton vote counted as approximately 0.99 of each Trump vote. Plaintiff stated that under the Fifth Amendment, citizens have a fundamental right to have their v…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Newsom v. Trump

3:25-cv-04870 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 9, 2025

This case challenged the federal deployment of the California National Guard to protect federal property and immigration officials from protesters in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. On June 9, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California filed suit in the Northern District of North California, challenging recent actions by President Trump in deploying the National Guard in the Los Angeles area. On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers carried out multiple e…

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-05338 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a case about redistricting in Georgia.   On December 30, 2021, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP (NAACP), Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), and Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Inc (GALEO) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  Plaintiffs sued the State of Georgia, the Governor of the State of Georgia, and the Secretary of State of Georgia (collectively, “Defendants”) for …

Administrative Stay Granted

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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jones v. Chopra

1:18-cv-02132 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 2024

This case concerns alleged racial and gender discrimination at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On September 13, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, plaintiffs brought this suit against the acting director of the CFPB and the Bureau itself on behalf of a putative class of “racial minorities and females who worked for the CFPB as Consumer Response Specialists and who were subjected to discrimination and retaliation by CFPB due to their race or gender.” Filing …

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)