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Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Duffy

1:25-cv-01413 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's February 2025 attempt to rescind federal funding for the New York State's congestion pricing program in New York City. The federal government had previously agreed that New York State could assess tolls on vehicles entering federal highways around the city. New York State had already fully implemented the program beginning on January 5, 2025. On February 19, 2025, plaintiffs, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Triborough Bridge and Tu…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Department of Transportation

1:25-cv-00996 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 3, 2025

This is a case about the federal government’s failure to respond to public records requests concerning potential rollbacks of vehicle pollution and fuel economy standards. On April 3, 2025, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Represented by private counsel, EDF sought decla…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
California High-Speed Rail Authority v. United States Department of Transportation

2:25-at-00931 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 17, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's decision to terminate more than $4 billion in federal grant funding for California's high-speed, all-electric railroad program. California had spent over $22 billion of its own money to advance the California High-Speed Rail Authority over the previous fifteen years; the federal government gave about $7 billion to the Authority from 2009 to 2010 and from 2022 to 2025. President Trump purported to cancel the programs funding in 2019, during his fir…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Hope for The Homeless Lakeside, Inc. v. County of San Diego

3:24-cv-01009 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: June 9, 2024

On June 10, 2024, Hope for the Homeless Lakeside and multiple named individuals (collectively, “HFTH-L”) filed suit against the County of San Diego, City of Lakeside, City of Santee, City of San Diego, California Department of Transportation, and several police officers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (collectively, “San Diego”). This case was assigned to District Court Judge Myron James Lorenz. HFTH-L's proposed class action lawsuit challenged the defendants'…

Case Is Ongoing

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Liddell v. Board of Education for the City of St. Louis

4:72-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1972

Background On February 18, 1972, five African-American parents and their minor children filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They sued the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis and a number of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants operated city schools in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the plai…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Airlines for America v. U.S. Department of Transportation

25-60071 | U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

This is a case about federal air travel regulations and the rights of passengers with disabilities. The Lawsuit On February 14, 2025, a coalition of major U.S. airlines—including American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United—filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit seeking to block a new Department of Transportation (DOT) rule imposes new accessibility requirements for air travelers who use wheelchairs and similar assistive devices, like scooters (in this summary, c…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Van Duyne v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

4:22-cv-00122 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2022

Closed Date: July 27, 2023

This case pertains to the mask mandate that the CDC issued during the COVID-19 pandemic. In February 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a federal mask mandate requiring individuals to wear face masks on public transportation and at transportation hubs to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. On February 16, 2022, U.S. Representative Elizabeth Van Duyne and the State of Texas filed suit against the CDC, its officials, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Senior and Disability Action v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

3:17-cv-01876 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 5, 2017

On April 5, 2017, disability rights organizations, Senior and Disability Action and Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco, and two individuals with disabilities who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (“BART”) service area filed a class action lawsuit against BART and the BART general manager. The plaintiffs claimed that BART violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Rehab Act”) as well as th…

Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief for Violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; California Civil Code § 51, Et SEQ: and California Government Code § 11135

Senior and Disability Action v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

April 5, 2017

Order Granting Final Approval of Class Action Settlement, Certifying Settlement Class, Approving Notice, and Setting Dates For Final Approval

Senior and Disability Action v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

April 18, 2024

Judgment

Senior and Disability Action v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

April 18, 2024

Order on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Attorneys’ Fees and Costs

Senior and Disability Action v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

April 18, 2024

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. King County Washington

2:20-cv-00203 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

On February 10, 2020, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The DOJ sued King County, Washington and its Executive under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 and the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan.  On April 23, 2019, the King County Executive signed King County Executive Order PFC-7-1-EO ("Airport EO"), prohibiting the transporta…

Case Is Ongoing

Affirmed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:18-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: May 8, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This is one of a pair of lawsuits filed by state affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), each relating to two separate Freedom of Information Act requests seeking agency records on immigration enforcement practices in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. (The other case is American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security.) Both cases were brought in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine; the ACLU sought declaratory and injunctive …