| Case Caption | District | Subject | District Court Proceedings | Relief Awarded | Appellate Posture | Summary | Downloads |
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| Arizona v. Kennedy
No. 3:26-cv-1609 |
N.D. Cal. | Childhood Vaccines | 02/24/2026: Complaint filed | AGs sue the Trump administration over changes that stripped seven childhood vaccines — those protecting against rotavirus, meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — of their universally recommended status. The lawsuit also challenges Secretary Kennedy’s unlawful replacement of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). | Complaint | ||
| Oregon v. Trump
No. 1:26-cv-01472 |
Ct. of Intl. Trade. | Section 122 Tariffs | 03/05/2026: Complaint filed | AG coalition plus the governors of Pennsylvania and Kentucky sue the Trump administration for imposing global tariffs that do not fall within the limited circumstances required by the relevant statute. | Complaint | ||
| Massachusetts v. Department of Education
No. 1:26-cv-11229 |
D. Mass. | IPEDS Survey | 03/11/2026: Complaint filed
03/24/2026: TRO granted extending deadlines for information gathering until April 6 |
03/24/2026: TRO granted extending deadlines for information gathering until April 6 | AG coalition sues the Trump Administration for demanding that higher education institutions provide detailed data on students that would jeopardize their privacy as well as leave institutions vulnerable to inadvertent errors and unreliable data, which could lead to costly penalties and baseless investigations into their admissions practices. | Complaint | |
| Illinois v. HUD
No. 3:26-cv-02262 |
N.D. Cal | HUD 2025 FHAP Guidance | 03/16/2026: Complaint filed | AG coalition sues the Trump administration over guidance it issued that significantly weakens fair housing protections in contravention of state law and makes it harder to hold landlords accountable for discrimination. | Complaint | ||
| Massachusetts v. EPA
No. 26-1061 |
D.C. Cir. | EPA Endangerment Finding | 3/19/2026: Petition for Review of Final Agency Action filed | AG coalition (including the AG from the U.S. Virgin Islands), the Governor of Pennsylvania, and 10 cities and counties filed a petition challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rescission of the Endangerment Finding, EPA’s formal acknowledgement that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that drives climate change and endangers public health and welfare; it has served as the legal basis under the Clean Air Act for limiting climate pollution from vehicles. | Complaint | ||
| Massachusetts v USDA
No 1:16-cv-11396 |
D. Mass. | USDA Terms and Conditions | 03/23/2026: Complaint filed | AG coalition sues challenging the Trump Administration’s attempt to impose new discriminatory conditions on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grants that would require federal funding recipients to comply with vague, hateful, and unrelated policies on immigration, gender ideology, transgender athletes, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. | Complaint | ||
| Oregon v. HHS | D. Or. | Title IX GAC Certifications and Terms | 01/13/2026: Complaint filed | Complaint | |||
| Oregon v. Kennedy
No. 6:25-cv-02409 |
D. Or. | Kennedy Declaration re Gender Affirming Care for Minors | 12/23/2025: Complaint filed | 03/20/2026: Summary Judgment granted to Plaintiffs: The Kennedy Declaration that gender affirming care for minors is “unsafe and ineffective” was invalidated. | Litigation challenging an HHS/Secretary Kennedy “declaration,” claiming that certain forms of gender-affirming care are “unsafe and ineffective.” In the declaration, Secretary Kennedy claimed to give HHS the power to exclude health care providers and institutions from the Medicare and Medicaid programs simply for providing health care for transgender adolescents. The agency also announced two proposed rules that would completely bar gender-affirming care providers and associated hospitals from participating in Medicare and Medicaid and ban payments for transgender health care through Medicaid. | Complaint | |
| New York v. Vought
No. 6:25-cv-2384 |
D. Or. | Closure of the Consumer Fraud and Protection Bureau | 12/22/2025: Complaint Filed | Twenty-one state and district attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on Monday, opposing his moves to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. | Complaint | ||
| California v. U.S. Department of Transportation
No. 2:25-cv-02574 |
W.D. Wash. | Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) | 12/16/2025: Complaint filed | Litigation challenging the Suspension of the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program | Complaint | ||
| California v. Noem
25-cv-13829 |
D. Mass. | H-1B Visas | 12/12/2025: Complaint filed | Challenge to the Trump Administration’s recent implementation of a DHS/USCIS policy charging employers, including public employers such as K-12 schools and higher education institutions, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B non-immigrant visa petitions for highly skilled workers. | Complaint | ||
| New York v. Rollins
6:25-cv-02186 |
D. Oregon | SNAP Non-Citizen Guidance | 11/26/2025: Complaint and Motion for PI filed | 12/15/2025: States secure preliminary injunction | AGs sue the Department of Agriculture for issuing new SNAP guidance that illegally restricts program eligibility for lawful permanent residents. | Complaint | |
| Washington v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
1:25-cv-00626 |
D. Rhode Island | HUD Continuum of Care Grants | 11/25/2025: Complaint and Motion for PI filed | 12/19/2025: The Court granted the States’ motion for a preliminary injunction
02/27/2026: The Court firmly denied the Government’s motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction, finding that the Plaintiff states continue to face the threat of irreparable harm. 03/02/2026: HUD filed an appeal in the First Circuit. |
AGs sue the Department of Housing and Urban Development for adopting new policies that limit access to housing funds for people who are transgender, struggling with mental illness and/or substance use disorder, or live in a jurisdiction with homelessness policy that the federal government disagrees with | Complaint | |
| Massachusetts v. Department of Education
25-cv-13244 |
D. Mass | Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program | 11/03/2025: Complaint filed | 22 AGs filed suit to block illegal conditions on the activities of those who would otherwise qualify for loan forgiveness based on their work in public service. Specifically, the government seeks to disqualify individuals whose work relates to a “substantial illegal purpose.” The only forms of illegal conduct specified are a list of the Administration’s disfavored activities, such as support for immigrants, gender-affirming care, DEI, and political protests. | Complaint | ||
| Massachusetts v. USDA
No. 1:25-cv-13165 |
D. Mass | SNAP Funding Lapse | 10/28/2025: Complaint and TRO filed | 11/13/2025: The majority of the relief sought in the case became moot with the government reopening | Challenging the withholding of funds that were appropriated by Congress to keep SNAP running during the Government shutdown. | Complaint | |
| New York v. U.S. DOJ
No. 1:25-00499
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D. Rhode Island | Prohibition on Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funded victim services paying for legal assistance for immigrant victims of crime. | 10/01/2025: Case filed
10/05/2025: DOJ filed motion to stay in light of the government shutdown, to which the State plaintiffs did not consent. |
11/14/2025: In a negotiated resolution, the DOJ agreed that the Legal Services Provision was inapplicable to VOCA Victim Services programs, acceding to the result States sought through the litigation. On 11/14/2025, therefore, States filed a motion to dismiss their complaint. | Challenge to new immigration-related restrictions place on VOCA Victim Assistance, VOCA Victim Compensation, and Byrne JAG Program grant recipients that seeks to force entities who provide legal services to crime victims to request citizenship verification information from victims, except in very limited circumstances. | Complaint | |
| Illinois v. Noem
No. 1:25-00495
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D. Rhode Island | Homeland Security Grant Program Reallocations | 09/29/2025: Complaint and TRO filed | 09/30/2025: Court grants TRO from the bench.
10/24/2025: By stipulation, TRO converted to a preliminary injunction, and parties set a briefing schedule for States’ motion for summary judgment 12/22/2025: The Court granted the States’ motion for summary judgment |
On Saturday, September 27, FEMA issued the award notifications for the Homeland Security Grants Program (HSGP) reallocating millions of dollars away from disfavored states. In addition to reducing and reallocating funds, FEMA shortened the period of performance (POP) for the grant awards from 3 years to 1 year. FEMA took this action without explanation. FEMA shortened the POP for all states who received the grants not just those disfavored states. The proposed lawsuit challenges both the reductions and reallocations and the new, much shorted POP. | Complaint | |
| Washington v. HHS
No. 6:25-01748
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D. Oregon | Sexual health education grant terminations based on mentions of geneder identity | 9/26/2025: Complaint and Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed.
9/30/2025: Briefing schedule set; Response to Preliminary Injunction due 10/8, reply due 10/15, oral argument set for 10/16/2025. |
10/27/2025: Preliminary injunction granted | Threatened terminations to Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education program (SRAE) grants if State awardees do not remove references to gender identity and sexual orientation in program | Complaint | |
| New Jersey v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, No. 25-cv-00404
(Co-lead state) |
D. Rhode Island | Cuts to Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) victim assistance funding | 8/18/2025: Complaint filed |
Resolution: Following the coalition’s lawsuit forward, U.S. DOJ has abandoned its plans to impose these conditions on $178 million in VOCA Victim Assistance grants and $1.2 billion in VOCA Victim Compensation grants. These grants will continue to be provided to states with no requirement that States assist DHS in immigration enforcement.
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21 States and the District of Columbia filed suit to prevent the imposition of terms and conditions on Victims of Violent Crime Act (VOCA) funding that would require victims compensation programs to verify the immigration status of victims before providing services funded by the grants. | Complaint | |
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New York v. U.S. DOJ
No. 1:25-cv-00345
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D. Rhode Island | Cuts to education and health programs including Head Start | 8/15/2025: Amended Complaint filed
8/20/2025: District Ct. hearing |
9/10/2025: Preliminary injunction entered. | 22 AGs sue to block restrictions, issued without notice, requiring immigration status verification before public services like Head Start, Meals on Wheels, and domestic violence shelter can be provided to individuals. | Complaint | |
| New York v. U.S. Dep’t of Energy
No.6:25-cv-01458-MTK |
D. Oregon | Department of Energy Indirect Costs | 08/15/2025: Complaint filed | 11/10/2025: Summary judgment granted
03/31/2026: The Government abandoned its appeal |
16 AGs and Gov. Shapiro/Beshear sue to prevent the imposition of a cap on the amount of indirect costs of research that can be paid under Department of Energy grants. | Complaint | |
| New Jersey v. Bondi
No. 1:25-cv-01807-PX (Co-lead state) |
D. Md. | Federal attempt to distribute Forced Reset Triggers | 6/9/2025: Complaint Filed
6/10/2025: Motion for PI filed 7/7/2025: California joins the lawsuit and parties file an amended complaint 7/11/2025: Plaintiffs withdraw Motion for a Preliminary Injunction after Defendants agree not to sell Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) in Plaintiff states. However, they will still be available in other states. |
By Agreement, Federal Defendants and Defendant RBT agreed not to return FRTs to Plaintiff States directly or indirect. | 16 States, led by New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, filed to stop the return of Forced Reset Trigger (FRT) devices, a type of machine gun conversion device that accelerates the fire rate of AR-15 style assault rifles to more than 20 rounds per second. | Complaint | |
| California v. Kennedy, HHS, No. 25-12019 | D. MA | Center for Medicaid Studies/Affordable Care Act Rules | 7/17/2025: Complaint filed with Motion for PI
08/07/2025: Defendant Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction Due 08/13/2025: Hearing on Preliminary Injunction (Order and Details Pending) |
20 AGs sue to block new Trump administration rules governing the Affordable Care Act that could cost up to 1.8 million people their health insurance. | Complaint | ||
| Washington v. FEMA, No. 12006 | D. Mass. | FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Program cancellation | 07/16/2025: Complaint filed
07/31/2025: Hearing on Motion for Preliminary Injunction 08/05/2025: Preliminary Injuanction granted 12/11/2025: Summary Judgment granted to plaintiff states 03/06/2026: Motion to enforce the Preliminary Injunction Granted. |
08/05/2025: Preliminary Injunction Granted: The Government is preliminarily enjoined from spending the funds allocated to BRIC for non-BRIC purposes until the court is able to render a final judgment on the merits.
12/11/2025: Plaintiff States’ Motion for Summary Judgment granted |
20 AGs sue to block FEMA’s illegal dismantling of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities disaster preparedness program. | Complaint | |
| California v. McMahon, No. 25-00329 | D. Rhode Island | OMB Freeze of Department of Education Funds | 07/14/2025: Complaint and PI filed
07/25/2025: Hearing is set for August 13 |
07/18/2025: Concession by Defendants: the Trump Administration announced it would release approximately $1.4 billion in funding for after school programs | 23 AGs AGs sue over OMB withholding funding for programs administered by Department of Education. | Complaint | |
| Massachusetts v. Trump, No. 25-12162 | D. Mass. | Gender Affirming Care for minors | 8/1/2025: Complaint filed | 16 AGs and Gov. Shapiro sue to block President Trump’s “”Denial of Care”” Executive Order that threatened civil and criminal prosecution to any healthcare provider that provides gender-affirming care for anyone under age 19. | Complaint | ||
| California v. HHS, No. 3:25-cv-05536 | N.D. Cal. | Medicaid Data Sharing for immigration enforcement | 7/1/2025: Complaint filed
07/15/2025: Updated Schedule on Motion for Preliminary Injunction issued 07/25/2025: Defendant Opposition Due 07/30/2025: Plaintiff Reply 08/15/2025: Case Management Conference scheduled |
08/12/2025: PI was granted in part | AGs sue the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) because it provided unfettered access to individual, confidential personal health data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for immigration enforcement purposes. | Complaint | |
| California v. Department of Health and Human Services
No. 1:25-cv-12118 |
D. MA | Defunding Planned Parenthood | 7/29/2025: Complaint filed | 10/15/2025: Preliminary injunction granted | AGs & Gov. Shapiro sue to block the unconstitutional “Defund Provision” of the 2025 reconciliation law that forbids state from using Medicaid dollars to pay for healthcare services provided at Planned Parenthood health centers. | Complaint | |
| California v. Department of Agriculture
No. 3:25-cv-06310 |
N.D. Cal | SNAP Data Requests | 7/28/2025: Complaint filed
10/31/2025: Case Management Conference |
10/15/2025: Preliminary injunction granted | AGs sue the Department of Agriculture over its demand that states turn over personal and sensitive information about millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipient or lose funding under the program. | Complaint | |
| Washington v. Department of Education
No. 2:25-cv-01228 |
W.D. Wash. | Mental Health Grants | 6/30/2025: Complaint filed
7/2/2025: Motion for Preliminary Injunction Filed Hearing scheduled for 9/5 07/17/2025: Briefing Schedule Filed in the District Court 08/06/2025: Defendant Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction Due 08/15/2025: Plaintiff Reply Due 09/05/2025: Preliminary Injunction Hearing |
10/27/2025: Preliminary Injunction granted
12/19/2025: The Court granted the States’ motion for summary judgment |
AGs file suit against the Department of Education over their unlawful decision to discontinue grants awarded through Congressionally-established school mental health funding programs. | Complaint | |
| New Jersey v. OMB
No. 1:25-cv-11816 |
D. Mass | PGAP/Agency-Priorities Clause | 6/24/2025: Complaint filed
07/28/2025: District Court files Scheduling Order: 08/04/2025: Plaintiff Motion for Summary Judgment Due |
22 states signed onto this suit that pushes back on the administrations unprecedented and unlawful campaign to terminate billions of dollars in critical federal funding which was appropriated by Congress. Agencies began cutting funding invoking a single clause mentioned in the federal regulations promulgated by OMB. this clause provides that federal agencies may terminate grants “pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Federal Award , including, to the extent authorized by law, if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.” This clause has since been incorporated into each agency listed as defendants in this case. | Complaint | ||
| New York v. National Science Foundation, No. 1:25-cv-04452 | S.D.N.Y. | Cuts to National Science Foundation Grants | 5/28/2025: Complaint and Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed
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Second Preliminary Injunction granted 06/03/2025
The Court decided that the claims regarding the challenged grants (as compared to the issues regarding the indirect cost rate cap) had to be brought in the Court of Federal Claims. 08/01/2025: Preliminary Injunction Denied. |
16 states filed suit to stop cuts to National Science Foundation Grants that targeted programs with names that the administration deemed to promote DEI. The suit also challenges a NSF-wide cap on the reimbursement rate for the indirect costs of research at 15%. | Complaint | |
| New York v. McMahon, No. 1:25-cv-10601
No. 25-1495 (1st Circuit) |
D. Mass. | Dismantling the Department of Education | 07/14/2025: Supreme Court rules in a 6-3 decision that the President’s plan to dismantle the Department beginning with mass layoffs may move forward.
08/08/2025: Plaintiff states file Motion to Vacate the Preliminary Injunction and schedule a status conference to discuss final judgment on the merits. 08/22/2025: Defendant Answer Due after extension granted on 08/01/2025 |
05/22/2025: Preliminary Injunction entered
07/14/2025: United States Supreme Court stayed the preliminary injunction |
6/4/2025: defendants filed a Notice of Appeal to the First Circuit.
7/14/2025: The Supreme Court of the United States Stayed the District Court’s injunction, permitting terminations to proceed pending appeals |
Twenty states and the District of Columbia requested the court to halt the announced Department of Education (DOE) and the Trump administration’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) of half of the remaining employees of the DOE and closure of the DOE. The states based their claims on violations of the constitutional separation of powers and the Executive’s duty of care to execute laws, and as arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act. | Complaint |
| Colorado v. HHS, No. 1:25-cv-000121
No. 25-1671 (First Cir.) |
D. Rhode Island | Public health grant cuts | TRO issued on 4/3/2025 (i.e. almost immediately after the case was filed on 4/1/2025)
Preliminary Injunction entered 5/16/2025, but it seemed to give the government leave to cancel the grants again with 14 days notice. The Government immediately issued that notice and tried to cut the grants again. On 5/16/2025, the Judge said he would enter a new TRO against that, with brefing for a further PI to be completed by 6/3/2025 On 7/15/2025, the Def. appealed to the First Circuit. 07/30/2025: First Circuit grants Defendants Voluntary Motion to Dismiss Appeal of Preliminary Injunction. 08/12/2025: In the District Court, an extension is granted to Defendants to Answer the Amended Complaint, order pending. |
23 states sued to challenge the Trump administration’s plan to claw back about $11 billion in federal money previously allocated to the states for public health, mental health, and addiction services as unlawful under the APA including because the cuts came with no advance warning; the plaintiffs allege the cuts have devastating consequences for communities throughout the country. | Complaint | ||
| New York, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., 25-cv-00196 | D. Rhode Island | Layoffs at HHS | 7/1/2025: Complaint and Motion for Preliminary Injunction Filed
07/18/2025: Defendant Motion to Vacate the Preliminary Injunction in light of the CASA decision rejected. 07/25/2025: Plaintiff Response to Motion to Clarify Preliminary Injunction Filed 08/13/2025: The District Court issued an Order Clarifying the Preliminary Injunction, narrowing its scope to only six of the agency’s centers from the order. The original lawsuit cited over 10,000 possible firings and after this, thousands of people will still likely lose their jobs despite the lawsuit. |
Seeks to reverse the Trump administration’s reorganization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the mass termination of 10,000 employees | Complaint | ||
| California v. United States Department of Transportation, No. 25-cv-00208 | D. Rhode Island | Immigration-related conditions on Department of Transportation grants | Complaint filed 5/13/2025
06/19/2025: Preliminary Injunction granted and Stay pending appeal denied. 07/17/2025: Plaintiff’s Motion to Modify Preliminary Injunction to include the District of Columbia and Kentucky granted. 08/19/2025: Parties to file cross-motions to dismiss and for summary judgment |
6/19/2025: Preliminary injunction granted
11/4/2025: Court rules on summary judgment that the challenged terms and conditions were unconstitutional and void. |
Challenge to threats by the Department of Transportation to withhold critical federal dollars from states that do not use their local law enforcement resources for federal immigration enforcement. | Complaint | |
| Illinois v. Federal Emergency Management Agency, No 1:25-cv-00206
1st Cir.: 25-2131 |
D. Rhode Island
1st Cir. |
Immigration-related conditions on FEMA grants | 5/13/2025: Complaint filed
6/2/2025: Motion for PI filed on 6/6/2025: Response in opposition of PI filed 7/2/2025: Amended Complaint and Motion for Summary Judgement filed 7/23/2025: Def. Motion for Summary Judgement and Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgement filed 09/29/2025: District Court grants the state plaintiffs summary judgment on all claims 10/14/2025: District Court grants a motion to enforce the order for summary judgment |
09/29/2025: District Court grants the state plaintiffs summary judgment on all claims , declaring the challenged terms and conditions unconstitutional and violative of the APA. 10/14/2025: District Court grants a motion to enforce the order for summary judgment
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Challenge to threats by FEMA and Homeland Security to withhold critical federal dollars from states that do not use their local law enforcement resources for federal immigration enforcement. | Complaint | |
| California v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-10810
First Cir. No. 25-1726 |
D. Mass | Voting restrictions | 4/3/2025: Complaint filed on 4/3/2025.
The government has filed a motion to stay or transfer the case to D. D.C. We filed an opposition on 5/7/2025. The Court denied the motion to stay on 5/9/2025. Preliminary Injunction granted 6/13/2025. 07/18/2025: Preliminary Injunction modified because of CASA decision, limiting certain relief to the Plaintiff States only. 07/31/2025: Defendants have appealed to the first circuit. |
Preliminary Injunction granted 6/13/2025.
07/18/2025: Preliminary Injunction modified because of CASA decision, limiting certain relief to the Plaintiff States only. |
Nineteen states filed a Complaint in the District of Massachusetts for injunctive and declaratory relief that the Trump Administration’s Elections EO provisions that require documentary proof of citizenship, and seeking to enforce that mail in ballots received after election day, are unconstitutional. The Democratic Party, multiple advocacy groups, and the States of Washington and Oregon have also filed lawsuits with similar allegations. | Complaint | |
| Washington v. Department of Transportation, No. 2:25-cv-00848 | W.D. Wash. | Electric Vehicle Charging funds | Case Filed on 5/7/2025
Oral Argument on our motion for Preliminary Injunction is set for 6/17/2025 07/23/2025: Court grants Motion to Intervene for environmental public interest organizations, including Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and others. 08/01/2025: Plaintiff Reply Due 08/11/2025: Defendant Reply Due |
06/24/2025 – Preliminary Injunction Issued | 16 AGs sue to challenge the Trump Administration’s cancellation of funds for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. | Complaint | |
| Oregon v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-00077
No. 25-1813 (Fed. Circuit of Appeals) |
Ct. of Intl. Trade. | Trump Tariffs | Case Filed 4/23/2025
Permanent Injunction entered 5/28/2025 The Government filed an appeal with the Federal Circuit and motion for a stay pending appeal in the Court of International Trade on 5/28/2025 On 5/29/2025, The Federal Circuit entered an administrative stay of the injunction pending briefing on the motion to stay 07/31/2025: Oral Argument heard in the Federal Circuit 02/20/2026: SCOTUS affirms the invalidation of the Tariffs President Trump imposed under IEEPA
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05/28/2025: Court of International Trade entered a permanent injunction
08/29/2025: Federal Circuit Affirms the judgment of the lower court. 02/20/2026: SCOTUS affirms the invalidation of the Tariffs President Trump imposed under IEEPA |
Lawsuit by 12 states challenging President Trump’s executive orders calling for higher tariffs on most products worldwide. | Complaint | |
| Maryland v. Corporation for National and Community Service, No. 25-cv-01363-DLB
(Co-lead state) |
D. Maryland | Dismantling of AmeriCorps | 04/29/2025: Original complaint filed
05/06/2025: Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed 06/05/2025: Preliminary Injunction granted 07/24/2025: Amended Complaint Filed, adding the Office of Management and Budget as a defendant 08/04/2025: Filed second motion for Preliminary Injunction 08/28/2025: OMB agrees to release FY2025 appropriated funds that it had held back from AmeriCorps, which had been subject to challenge by the 08/04/2025 PI motion |
06/05/2025: Preliminary injunction required the restoration of FY2024 and 2025 AmeriCorps programs and funding cancelled by the Administration
08/28/2025: OMB agrees to release FY2025 appropriated funds that it had held back from AmeriCorps, which had been subject to challenge by the 08/04/2025 PI motion
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The lawsuit, joined by 24 states and Washington DC challenges the attempt to dismantle AmeriCorps. The case presents 3 APA claims (Contrary to law, Notice and Comment, Arbitrary and Capricious), constitutional Separation of Powers claim, and an ultra vires claim. | Complaint | |
| New York v. U.S. Department of Education, 1:25-cv-02990 (ER)(BCM) | SDNY | Termination of Education Stabilization Funds | 04/10/2025: Complaint filed
05/06/2025: Preliminary Injunction granted 06/03/2025: Second Preliminary Injunction granted 06/04/2025: Def. filed notice of interlocutory appeal to the Second Circuit. 06/10/2025: Def. notice of interlocutory appeal to the Second Circuit was DENIED 07/03/2025: Defendants file status report, asserting compliance with P.I. |
05/06/2025: Preliminary Injunction granted
06/03/2025: Second Preliminary Injunction granted |
AGs and Governor Shapiro sue after the Department of Education unilaterally and without notice rescinded education grant funds, on grounds that the COVID 19 emergency was declared over, although the grants were obligated through March 2026.
Following the granting of the first preliminary injunction, the government purported to change the length of time grant recipients had to draw down funds to 14 days, arguing that they that that was consistent with the PI order. The states moved for a second PI to prevent changes to the draw down period, and to keep funds flowing. The judge granted the second preliminary injunction as well. |
Complaint | |
| Rhode Island v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-00128
No. 25-1477 (1st Cir.) |
D. Rhode Island | Attempted dismantling of 3 federal agencies, including those supporting libraries and museum and minority-owned businesses | 04/04/2025: Complaint and Motion for TRO filed
Parties stipulated to convert the motion for TRO to a motion for a Preliminary Injunction 05/16/2025: Government appealed to the First Circuit 06/12/2025: Amended Complaint filed complaint 07/10/2025: Status conference held 07/15/2025: Joint Stipulation filed on behalf of the Plaintiff states on 07/15/2025 and entered on 07/16/2025. 08/11/2025: Status Report filed by Defendants, asserting compliance with the Preliminary Injunction |
5/13/2025: Preliminary Injunction granted
11/21/2025: The Court granted the States’ motion for summary judgment. 01/20/2026: The federal government filed a notice of appeal |
05/16/2025: Appealed to 1st Cir.
9/11/2025: 1st Cir. denies Government’s motion for a stay of the preliminary injunction pending appeal.” |
On March 14, the President issued an Executive Order (the “Closure Order”) directing the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and four other agencies to eliminate every one of their programs and components not mandated by statute, and to reduce their statutorily mandated functions and associated staff to the minimum required by law. For at least three agencies, “full compliance” has meant gutting every one of their operations—statutorily mandated or not. The complaint challenges the cuts to these agencies. | Complaint |
| Massachusetts v. Kennedy, No. 1:25-cv-10814 | D. Mass | Deliberate delays in NIH grant application reviews and termination of issued NIH grants | 4/4/2025: Complaint and Motion for TRO filed
4/14/2025: Amended Complaint filed 5/5/2025 Plaintiffs filed Reply to Response to Motion for P.I. 06/24/2025: Motion for Stay Pending Appeal denied 07/02/2025: Updated ruling in favor of Plaintiffs, reinstating grants as to the Plaintiff states (per CASA precedent) and Defendants file Appeal 07/18/2025: Defendant Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal rejected and District Court ruling reaffirmed 08/15/2025: Court order on Discover due 09/02/2025: Final Pretrial Conference and oral arguments on Motion to Dismiss 09/15/2025: Bench trial completion deadline |
6/16/2025: Preliminary Injunction Granted
08/21/2025: Preliminary injunction stayed by SCOTUS. |
AGs sued, arguing that the administration’s decision to terminate plaintiffs’ grants from the NIH was arbitrary and capricious in multiple ways: among other things, defendants failed to adequately explain the basis for their decision and failed to engage in reasoned consideration of any recipients’ projects (or the consequences of terminating them). | Complaint | |
| New York, et al. v. Donald Trump, 1:25-cv-11221 | D. Mass. | Cancellation of Wind Energy Projects | 05/05/2025: Case Filed | 05/05/2025: Complaint and Motion for Preliminary Injunction Filed
06/18/2025: Hearing set for 11:30am 08/08/2025: Parties to file cross-motions for summary judgment 08/22/2025: Parties to respond to cross-motions 09/04/2025: Hearing |
07/03/2025: Preliminary Injunction Granted
12/08/2025: States win summary judgment |
17 states and D.C. have asked a district court to block Trump’s ban on wind energy approvals and declare it illegal. | Complaint |
| New York v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-01144 | SDNY | DOGE’s access to sensitive data at the Department of the Treasury | 02/07/2025: Original complaint filed
02/08/2025: Won a TRO 02/21/2025: Won a preliminary injunction 03/10/2025: The government moved to partially dissolve the TRO 03/12/2025: The states moved for reconsideration of the scope of the preliminary injunction 04/11/2025: The Court granted the government’s motion to partially dissolve the preliminary injunction as to one DOGE employee, and denied the States’ motion for reconsideration 05/01/2025: The government moved to fully dissolve the preliminary injunction 05/27/2025: The Court denied the government’s motion to dissolve the PI 07/28/2025: Defendants file Notice of Appeal to the Second Circuit on the Preliminary Injunction. |
02/08/2025: Won a TRO
02/21/2025: Won a preliminary injunction |
Nineteen state attorneys general sued President Donald Trump and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent alleging that individuals affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) were granted unauthorized access to sensitive Treasury Department records in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, the Privacy Act, and other ethics statutes. A federal court temporarily blocked DOGE’s access to certain payment records maintained by the Treasury Department containing sensitive data while the case proceeds, citing potential violations of federal law. | Complaint | |
| New York v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-00039
No. 25-1236 (1st Circuit) |
D. Rhode Island | OMB Memo/Federal Funding Pause | 01/25/2025: Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order Filed.
02/12/2025: Order reaffirming Temporary Restraining 03/27/2025: Defendants’ Motion to Stay Preliminary Injunction Pending Appeal denied 04/04/2025: Plaintiffs’ Motion for Enforcement of Preliminary Injunction granted 04/07/2025: Motion for Enforcement of Preliminary Injunction is Stayed in light of Supreme Court decision in California v. Department of Education, the “SEED grants” case |
01/31/2025: Won TRO
02/10/2025: Won Motion to Enforce TRO 03/06/2025: Won preliminary injunction |
04/28/2025: Appeal to the First Circuit Court is filed.
11/18/2025: The First Circuit heard oral argument on the merits of the government’s appeal. 03/27/2026: The First Circuit denied the federal government’s motion for a stay pending appeal. 04/14/2026: The District Court lifted the stay, denied the government’s motion for reconsideration or for a stay pending appeal. |
The attorneys general of 22 states and the District of Columbia sued the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB), challenging its directive to pause federal funding as a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and the First Amendment. While the OMB later rescinded the memo referred to in the states’ complaint, the federal courts since then have ruled that the Trump Administration should release the funding freeze. | Complaint |
| New York v. U.S. Department of Education, 1:25-cv-11116 | D. Mass | Title VI Certifications | 4/25/2025: Complaint Filed
09/24/2025: Scheduling Conference |
The Department of Education agreed not to enforce the challenge Title VI certification requirement during the pendency of the lawsuit | Lawsuit filed to challenge enforcement of a certfication that recipients of education grants would not practice DEI. | Complaint | |
| Maryland v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, No. 1:25-cv-00748
No. 25-1248 (4th Circuit) |
D. Maryland | Federal Probationary Employee Mass Firings | 03/06/2025: Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order filed
04/03/2025: Reduction-in-Force cases consolidated by Fourth Circuit 04/04/2025: Defendants’ motion for Stay Pending Appeal denied by District Court 04/09/2025: Defendants’ motion for Stay Pending Appeal granted by Fourth Circuit |
03/13/2025: Plaintiffs won TRO
04/01/2025: Won preliminary injunction 04/09/2025: 4th Circuit stayed the preliminary injunction
09/09/2025: 4th Circuit reversed the grant of preliminary injunction
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4/2/2025: The federal government appealed to the 4th Circuit
4/4/2025: The district court denied a motion to stay pending appeal 4/9/2025: 4th Circuit granted Defendants’ Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal 09/08/2025: 4th Circuit reversed the grant of preliminary injunction |
Lawsuit challenging February 11, 2025 government-wide Reductions in Force (RIFs) | Complaint |
| Massachusetts v. NIH, No. 1:25-cv-10338
No. 25-1343 (1st Circuit) |
D. Mass | Medical research funding (NIH indirect costs) | 02/10/2025: Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order Filed; Motion for TRO was later converted to a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction
04/08/2025: Defendants file Appeal of Permanent Injunction to First Circuit. |
Won a nationwide preliminary injunction on 3/5/2025, protecting $12 million in funding for the University of Delaware, and $1.4 million for Delaware State University
By consent, the preliminary injunction was converted to a permanent injunction on 4/4/2025. |
04/08/2025: The government appealed to the 1st Cir.
01/06/2026: The 1st Circuit affirmed the lower court’s ruling. |
22 state governments sued the National Institute of Health (“NIH”), challenging NIH’s new policy that caps the amount of reimbursements available for the indirect costs of medical research grants, including administration, personnel, and leasing. The plaintiff states argue that the policy violates federal law and exceeds NIH’s authority. The governments have requested the court declare the policy unlawful and immediately and permanently block implementation of the policy. The court granted their request and has blocked the policy from implementation nationwide, and required reporting by NIH to ensure compliance. | Complaint |
| New Jersey v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-10139
No. 25-1170 (1st Circuit) |
D. Mass/1st Circuit Court of Appeals | Birthright Citizenship | Won preliminary injunction; currently on appeal in the 1st Circuit. Circuit court denied the feds’ motion for a stay.
On March 13, the government appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral argument held before SCOTUS May 15 on propriety of national injunction 06/27/2025: The Supreme Court finds that nationwide injunctions are not permitted as a blanket practice because they have no historical analog. However the Court declines to rule on whether the particular concerns the states raised require a tailored remedy that extends beyond the plaintiff states. And thus, the Court leaves the door open to the possibility that this particular situation of the harms that befall a state and its residents when citizenship is a patchwork system may require more sweeping relief (up to and including an injunction that applies in all states). 07/25/2025: The District Court once again blocks the Birthright Citizenship EO in Ruling on Scope of the Preliminary Injunction, clarifies and reiterates that his relief is universal despite CASA decision. |
02/13/2025: Won preliminary injunction
07/25/2025: The District Court once again blocks the Birthright Citizenship EO in Ruling on Scope of the Preliminary Injunction, clarifies and reiterates that his relief is universal despite CASA decision. |
A broad coalition of states sued President Donald Trump alleging his Executive Order (EO) revoking birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants and others is unconstitutional.
A federal court temporarily blocked the EO while the lawsuit is pending on the basis that it likely violates the Fourteenth Amendment; and the Fourth Circuit denied the defendants’ motion for a stay. The government appealed to the Supreme Court. |
Complaint |
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