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In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

1:08-mc-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

Case Ongoing

After the opening of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for the writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The detainees alleged that the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, and high-ranking army officials failed to provide evidence that the detainees were enemy combatants, and also failed to advance any justification for the a…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Whitman-Walker Health v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:20-cv-01630 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Trump Administration's limits on LGBTQ protections under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. § 18116). On June 22, 2020, a group of LGBTQ-focused private healthcare providers, organizations providing community services, health professional associations, and individual providers filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Administrative Pr…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Milliken v. Bradley

2:70-cv-20794 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 1970

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 1989

This landmark case is about racial segregation in the Detroit metropolitan area schools, and has been described as the most significant school desegregation case since Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (also in this Clearinghouse). The first Supreme Court ruling is often denoted as Milliken I, and was considered crucial for clarifying the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation. It confirmed that a school district would not be held responsible for segregation across …
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

Case Ongoing

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…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…

Amicus-Curiae Brief of the Anti-Defamation League in Support of Intervenor-Petitioners

Feb. 8, 2017

Consent Motion of the Anti-Defamation League for Leave to File Amicus-Curiae Brief in Support of Intervenor-Petitioners

Feb. 8, 2017

Brief of Amici Curiae Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Support of Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Feb. 8, 2017

Brief of Proposed Amici Curiae Muslim Advocates, American Muslim Health Professionals, Council for the Advancement of American Muslim Professionals, Islamic Medical Association of North America, Muppies, Inc., National Arab American Medical [...]

Feb. 8, 2017

Brief of Amici Curiae Muslim Advocates, American Muslim Health Professionals, Council for the Advancement of American Muslim Professionals, Islamic Medical Association of North America, Muppies, Inc., National Arab American Medical [...]

Feb. 8, 2017

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Trump

2:17-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2018

This class action lawsuit, filed January 30, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) ban on admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (in Seattle). Plaintiffs were represented by the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Immigration Council. The…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Louhghalam v. Trump

1:17-cv-10154 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: March 20, 2017

On January 28, 2017, two lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. who were detained at Boston Logan Airport (Logan) as they were trying to return home to Massachusetts filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in Boston). Represented by the ACLU of Massachusetts and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary of DHS, the Commissioner of CBP, the Director of the…