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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

Case Ongoing

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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wood v. Florida Department of Education

4:23-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2023

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of a Florida statute that prohibits public school teachers from sharing their personal pronouns or titles with students if those identifiers do not match the sex assigned to them at birth.  On December 13, 2023, three Florida public school teachers filed suit against the Florida Department of Education, the State Board of Education, multiple Florida state officials in their official capacities, and the teachers’ respective employers: Hillsborough Co…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Benning v. Dozier

5:18-cv-00087 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 9, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit brought by an incarcerated person after his outgoing emails were allegedly censored without any form of notification or an appeals process. On March 9, 2018, Plaintiff filed this lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections (“GDC”) Commissioner, as well as the official allegedly responsible for censoring inmate emails for the GDC, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. (The plaintiff initially represented himself, but was later represented by t…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought

1:25-cv-00381 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's endeavor to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On February 7, 2025, Elon Musk posted, “CFPB RIP” on social media. The next day, the Acting Director of the CFPB instructed CFPB staff to “immediately” stop all work and informed the Federal Reserve that the CFPB would not take any additional funding for its operations in the next quarter. This action happened in the larger context of the Trump Administration’s effort to disman…
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,…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hernandez v. Houston

4:16-cv-03577 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2024

This is a case about Houston police arresting individuals without warrants and detaining them without probable cause. On December 5, 2016, two plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated sued the City of Houston under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Represented by private counsel and th…
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. § …
CHILD WELFARE
L.J. v. Massinga

1:84-cv-04409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the actions of twenty-one state and city officials, caseworkers, and supervisors who administered Maryland's federally-funded foster care program in Baltimore City, Maryland. The class action, filed on December 5, 1984, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Baltimore), alleged that the defendants' administration of the foster program subjected the plaintiffs to physical and sexual abuse as well as medical neglect. They sought broad interim and permanent i…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Doe v. Boyertown Area School District

5:17-cv-01249 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 21, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

The case involves a challenge brought by cisgender students against their school’s gender-affirming policies for transgender students.  On March 21, 2017 a cisgender student brought suit in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Boyertown Area School District and several school officials in their official capacity. Represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Plaintiff alleged that the School District’s policy of allowing transgender students to use the facilities al…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Concord Community Schools

3:15-cv-00463 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2015

Closed Date: March 6, 2017

This case challenged a public high school’s annual Christmas show, which featured a nativity scene, on First Amendment grounds.  On October 7, 2015, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the separation of church and state, and several of its members (Plaintiffs) filed this lawsuit against Concord Community Schools (Defendant), a public school corporation that operated several schools in Indiana, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of India…