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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Authors Guild v. National Endowment for the Humanities

1:25-cv-03923 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case involves the Trump administration's termination of 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants. On May 12, 2025, the Authors Guild and several scholars filed this class action lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities, its Acting Chairman, DOGE, and several DOGE officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The scholar plaintiffs had each received an NEH grant to fund their humanities projects, but the Defendants term…
EDUCATION
State of New York v. United States Department of Education

1:25-cv-02990 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

On April 10, 2025, sixteen states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the U.S. Department of Education and its Secretary. The states challenged Defendants' revocation of the state's access to funds appropriated to help public schools recover from the effects of COVID-19. They alleged that Defendants' actions violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The case was assigned to District Judge Edgardo Ramo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Caballero v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

9:20-cv-01470 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit alleging that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) intentionally denied all people with moderate mental health disorders from having the opportunity to complete a program that would have made them eligible for early release.  The plaintiff, a formerly incarcerated individual out on parole, filed a complaint on December 2, 2020 against the DOCCS, alleging that the plaintiff was forced to spend nine extra months in prison be…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Council of Learned Societies v. McDonald

1:25-cv-03657 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2025, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, and the Modern Language Association filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. They named the National Endowment for the Humanities and its Acting Chairman, DOGE, and various DOGE officials as Defendants. They challenged the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), including eliminating nearly all of its programs and conducting…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States of America v. State of New York

1:25-cv-03656 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On May 1, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit against New York, its Governor, its Attorney General, and the Acting Commissioner of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The DOJ challenged the Climate Superfund Act, a 2024 New York law that sought to hold fossil fuel companies liable for their contribution to climate change and its effects. Th…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Elia v. New York State Unified Court System

1:25-cv-01645 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On April 2025, a Brooklyn resident and the National Federation of the Blind - New York filed a lawsuit in federal court against the New York State unified Court System and the Kings County Commissioner of Jurors, alleging that defendants engaged in systemic discrimination against blind individuals who reported for jury duty. 
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Smalls v. Martuscello

903926-25 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: April 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On April 17, 2025, six incarcerated individuals sued the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ("DOCCS") in state court. Plaintiffs alleged that DOCCS was improperly using emergency authority to circumvent the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act ("HALT").  
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United Spinal Association v. Board of Elections in the City of New York

1:10-cv-05653 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 26, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2020

On July 26, 2010, the United Spinal Association and Disabled in Action represented by Disabled Rights Advocates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Elections in the City of New York under the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.) and the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794). They sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants knowingly failed to fix deficiencies in accessibility at pollin…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Green v. Orange County

7:25-cv-03278 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On April 21, 2025, a Muslim inmate at the Orange County county jail sued the County for alleged religious discrimination. The plaintiff was represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for New York and private counsel. Plaintiff alleged that the jail forced her to remove for hijab for her booking photo and identification card, confiscated her hijab and other religious items, denied her religious meals during Ramadan, am…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
CODING IN PROCESS
Plantiffs 1-3 v. The City of New York

1:25-cv-02397 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 30, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On April 30, 2025, three men on a New York Police Department ("NYPD") list of gang members filed a putative class action alleging NYPD officers allegedly surveilled, detained, questioned and harassed Black and Latino people on the list. The three named plaintiffs each assert they have been on the list for over a decade despite never being members of criminal organizations. Plaintiffs alleged the NYPD's conduct violated the First, F…