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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pacito v. Trump

2:25-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

On February 10, 2025, three refugee resettlement agencies and nine individuals filed this putative class action against President Donald J. Trump, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The Plaintiffs challenged Executive Order 14163, titled "Realigning the United States Refugee Admission Program," which barred entry into the United States for all refugee…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
E.Q. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-00791 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

This suit was filed against the Biden administration in response to two new rules, issued in December 2024, that gave asylum officers greater authority over the fate of non-citizens during their screening interviews. The first rule, issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), gives asylum officers broad discretion to categorically bar certain non-citizens from applying for asylum and withholding of removal. Its companion rule, issued by the Executive Office of Immigration Review (…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.O.P. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:19-cv-01944 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 1, 2019

This case challenges the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 2019 policy memorandum that instructed asylum officers to reassess whether applicants previously determined to be unaccompanied alien children (UACs) still met that definition at the time of application and, if not, to decline jurisdiction. On July 1, 2019, four unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the De…

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.P.P. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

Closed Date: April 9, 2025

This case is about a detained asylum seeker’s attempt to prevent deportation to a third country without notice or a hearing. On April 2, 2025, a noncitizen asylum seeker detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Warden of Aurora Contract Detention Facility. The case was assigned to Judge Robert E. …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Harris County, Texas v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:25-cv-01058 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 2025

This case challenges the Trump Administration’s freezing of $10.5 million in federal grant funding to Harris County, Texas for its refugee resettlement programs.  On January 27, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum directing all federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to pause all activities related to the obligation and disbursement of federal financial assistance. OMB rescinded the memorandum on January 29, 2025, but the fe…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

This case challenged the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) suspension of federal funding awards to and termination of cooperative agreements with non-governmental organizations that partnered with the government to provide refugee resettlement assistance through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). DOS claimed these actions were consistent with President Trump’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order 14169 “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” (EO 14169).  On February 18, 202…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Dismissed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
New York Immigration Coalition v. Trump

1:25-cv-01309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s effort to narrow birthright citizenship. You can see all of the 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 Amendment does not apply to children born in the United States when: (1) their mother was unlawfully present in t…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Knight First Amendment Institute v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:17-cv-07572 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2017

This case challenged various government departments' withholding of records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This lawsuit, filed October 4, 2017, sought to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State (DOS) to release certain records under FOIA. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting freedom of speech and press, sought "records concerning the exclusion or removal of individuals fro…

Case Is Ongoing

Reversed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Galvez v. Jaddou

2:19-cv-00321 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 5, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 5, 2024

On March 5, 2019, plaintiffs—immigrant youth under the age of 21 who applied for Special Immigrant Juvenile status (“SIJ”)—filed a class action lawsuit in the Western District of Washington on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated to challenge the Trump Administration’s policy of refusing to adjudicate their SIJ petitions in accordance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”). The complaint was filed on behalf of the following proposed class:  “All individuals who have been …

Injunction Granted

Affirmed