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Washington v. Devos

2:20-cv-01119 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 20, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This case is about allocation of education funding for K-12 schools to private schools during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This case was filed after the state of Washington obtained a preliminary injunction in a separate case that also sought to enjoin the Department of Education’s guidance for allocating Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) funds. More information about that case can be found here: Washington v. DeVos. As part of the CARES Act, Congress al…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation v. Mnuchin

1:20-cv-01002 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 17, 2020

This case involves the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (USDT) disbursement of COVID-19 aid to Native American tribes. As part of the March 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), $150 billion in aid was allocated towards "States, Tribal governments, and units of local government." USDT was mandated to reserve $8 billion of these funds for “tribal governments.” This lawsuit concerned the definition of the term “tribal government” for the purpose of receiving those …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Terkel v. CDC

6:20-cv-00564 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) eviction moratorium, which became effective on September 4, 2020, and prohibited landlords from evicting certain tenants until at least December 31, 2020. On October 22, 2020, one individual landlord and six business organizations that own residential rental property filed this lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas. They sued the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Alabama Association of Realtors v. U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services

1:20-cv-03377 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

This is a case about the legality and constitutionality of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) eviction moratorium, which became effective on September 4, 2020, and prohibited landlords from evicting certain tenants until at least December 31, 2020. On November, 20, 2020, two trade associations of residential real estate owners, three limited liability real estate companies, and two individuals involved in leasing residential property filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District C…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Washington v. DeVos

2:20-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: May 19, 2020

Closed Date: June 22, 2021

This case was about the allocation of education funding for higher education institutions during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This case is very similar to another case of the same name filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. That case, which addressed COVID-19 education funding for K-12 schools, is Washington v. Devos. Washington State filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (Spokane) on May 19, 2020. Defendants w…
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Hayes v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 30, 2021

Closed Date: Jan. 31, 2024

After the Coronavirus pandemic emerged in early 2020, the US Federal Government mobilized to bolster the US economy by creating advanced tax credits, also known as stimulus payments. While Congress explicitly stated the eligibility of incarcerated folks for these stimulus payments, the State of Arkansas passed an act—Act 1110—on April 26, 2021, which allowed Arkansas’ Department of Corrections (ADC) to seize any "federal relief or stimulus funds" from people in its custody. This act prevented a…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Colorado v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:25-cv-00121 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 1, 2025

This lawsuit, filed on April 1, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenges the abrupt termination of $11 billion in federal public health funding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The plaintiffs—25 states and jurisdictions including Colorado, Rhode Island, California, and the District of Columbia—sued HHS and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., alleging that the termination of grants previously funded through COVID-19 legislation was…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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Bemke, Brian v. Pechacek, Amy

3:21-cv-00560 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 7, 2021

This case challenges a Wisconsin law that categorically denied unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to people who also received Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). On September 7, 2021, a group of eight disabled Wisconsin residents filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, arguing that a state law prohibiting them from receiving SSDI benefits unlawfully discriminated against them. The case was assigned to District Judge William M. Conley.…

Case Is Ongoing

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Harris County, TX v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

1:25-cv-01275 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case challenged the decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its component Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to terminate over $11 billion in congressionally appropriated grants to state and local governments. The grants were designed to fund outbreak prevention programs and to ameliorate the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic. To terminate these grants, HHS and the CDC were statutorily required to make a determination that the individual recipient…

Preliminary Injunction Granted