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POLICING
Baerga v. City of New York

1:21-cv-05762 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a New York Police Department (NYPD) policy allowing the police to take into custody anyone who is mentally ill. On July 5, 2021, an individual who was legally disabled due to a mental condition challenged NYPD Patrol Guide Policy 221-13 (“EDP” policy). The EDP policy stated that the New York police can take into custody anyone who is mentally ill. Subsequent amended complaints added several more individuals, as well as several organizations representing people who are menta…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City and County of San Francisco v. Donald J. Trump

3:25-cv-01350 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to withhold federal funding from "sanctuary cities" in order to coerce them to comply with the Administration’s immigration agenda. On February 7, 2025, five cities and counties – San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Portland, OR; King County, WA; and New Haven, CT – filed this lawsuit against President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District o…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Clarkson v. Coughlin

1:91-cv-01792 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 1991

Case Ongoing

On March 15, 1991, deaf inmates at state prisons in New York filed a class action lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12131, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by the defendants' failure to pro…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-00946 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged President Trump’s March 2025 executive order titled, "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" (EO 14248). EO 14248 sought to make several changes to the rules governing elections. First, it directs the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to alter the federal voter registration form prescribed by Congress ("Federal Form") to require documentary proof of United States citizenship. Second, it directs the EAC to change the Federal Form to require a state…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

EDUCATION
State of Washington v. United States Department of Education

2:25-cv-01228 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: June 30, 2025

Case Ongoing

Several lawsuits have been brought challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. This case is one; the others can be found here. This suit was brought to challenge the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to discontinue mental health funding to elementary and secondary schools created by Congress in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting (the “Non-Continuation Decision”). On June 30, 2025, several states (Washington, California, Colorado, Conne…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Fight, Inc. v. True The Vote

2:20-cv-00302 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about whether a “voter-integrity” campaign of True the Vote, a conservative Texas-based vote-monitoring organization, violated Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act.  On January 5, 2021, during the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and amid claims of voter fraud and election impropriety by President Donald Trump, Georgia held a run-off election for its seats in the U.S. Senate.  The outcome of the run-off election would determine the control of the Senate. During the run…

Judgment for Defendant

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National TPS Alliance v. Noem

3:25-cv-05687 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the federal government’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. Congress created TPS in 1990 to replace politically driven discretionary programs like “extended voluntary departure” with decisions based on clear humanitarian standards. TPS designations confer work authorization and protection from deportation. During the first Trump administration, DHS announced TPS terminations between 2017 and 2018, affecting over 400,000 peopl…

Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Nightingale v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

3:19-cv-03512 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

On June 16, 2019, plaintiffs – three immigration attorneys and two noncitizens who filed FOIA (FOIA) requests for individual immigration case files (known as A-Files) – filed this class-action suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that the defendants had a nationwide pattern or p…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Calderon Jimenez v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-10225 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID 19 Summary: A member of a class of immigrants and their spouses suing ICE over its removal policies was ordered released on March 25, 2020. On March 24 the plaintiffs filed a motion for immediate release of that class member because he was detained in a facility where an employee tested positive for COVID-19. On April 16, the parties filed a joint status report that altered the terms of release for the class member and the court lifted the stay on the class member's removal by ICE. ICE im…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
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