AFL-CIO v. Trump
The Trump administration began dismantling federal civil service protections in early 2025, pushing agencies to terminate probatio…
Barbara v. Trump (Birthright Citizenship)
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an executive order reinterpreting the Fourteenth Amendment to deny birthri…
Chiles v. Salazar
Coney Island Auto Parts v. Burton
A Tennessee company sued a Brooklyn auto shop for $47,000, the Brooklyn shop ignored it on the theory that Tennessee had no person…
Hain Celestial Group v. Palmquist
This is a Supreme Court case about subject matter jurisdiction and diversity jurisdiction. A Texas mother sued Hain Celestial Grou…
Hewitt v. United States
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J.G.G. v. Trump (deportation DDC, 2025)
5 Venezuelan men threatened with immediate deportation due to the president's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act sued the Trump a…
Landor v. Louisiana, Department of Corrections
Damon Landor is a devout Rastafarian who kept his dreadlocks for 20 years as a religious obligation, and three weeks before he was…
American Bar Association v. Executive Office of the President
The American Bar Association sued the Trump administration over the president's attacks on law firms.
New York v. United States
State of Oregon v. Trump
When Defense Secretary Hegseth issued directives in October 2025 to federalize and deploy the Oregon National Guard, Oregon went t…
Slaughter v. Trump (Slaughter FTC Removal)
In 1935 the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could shield independent-agency officials from at-will firing — meaning the presiden…
Slaughter v. Trump (Slaughter FTC Appeal)
Slaughter v. Trump (25A264) is the Supreme Court emergency application arising from President Trump's purported firing of FTC Comm…
Trump v. New York Times
Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation suit against the New York Times in September 2025 in the Middle District of Florida, c…
Trump v. Orr (Trump Passport Rule)
The case concerns a passport rule requiring applicants to use the sex listed at birth. The State Department argued it was bound by…
U.S. v. Dunn
Sean Dunn threw a sandwich at a federal officer in Washington, D.C., and a jury acquitted him even though the evidence that he did…
Abrego Garcia v. Noem (Habeas corpus 2025)
Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus following his detention by ICE and intention by the government to …
Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington v. Office of Management and Budget
This case concerns the government’s removal of the public apportionment database, which tracks federal spending, in March. CREW su…
United States v. Russell
The Trump administration sued the entire federal bench of Maryland over an automatic 24-hour pause on habeas cases designed to pre…
National Endowment for Democracy v. United States (Impoundment 2025)
The National Endowment for Democracy sued the Trump administration over the impoundment of funds Congress had appropriated for NED…
Abramowitz v. Lake (VOA independence 2025)
Congress established Voice of America in 1942 with statutory editorial independence from U.S. government control; when the Trump a…
Nairn v. Ardoin
Louisiana redrew its congressional maps after the last census and a federal district court found them racially discriminatory in v…
White v. State Board of Elections
The case involves Mississippi's Supreme Court election districts, which allegedly split the historically African American Mississi…
U.S. v. Girod
U.S. v. Girod (25-2635) is a federal prosecution arising from the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach. Mark Girod was among thousands c…
National Institute of Health v. American Public Health Association
The case is about canceled public health research grants by the Trump administration. The district court ordered the NIH to keep p…
U.S. v. New York
The United States government sued the state of New York over its "Green Light Law" which bans the sharing of New York DMV records …
Friends of the Everglades, Inc. v. Noem
The Trump administration built an ICE detention facility in Florida's Everglades, on 96% wetlands adjacent to Big Cypress National…
Cook v. Trump (Fed Reserve independence)
The case, docketed as Trump v. Cook (25A312) at the Supreme Court, involves presidential removal power in tension with Federal Res…
National TPS Alliance v. Noem (TPS ND Cal 2025)
Temporary Protected Status exists because Congress recognized that deporting people to countries in active crisis undermines stabi…
National TPS Alliance v. Noem (TPS Termination 2025)
The National TPS Alliance sued the Department of Homeland Security over the termination of temporary protected status for people f…