Case Database
Created 12/22/2025
Last update 12/22/2025
What’s at Stake In TransUnion v. Ramirez, the U.S. Supreme Court made explicit that alleging a violation of a statute is not enough to have standing to bring a lawsuit in federal court under Article III of the U.S. Constitution—instead, a plaintiff must show a...
Created 12/17/2025
Last update 12/17/2025
What’s at stake Whether undocumented immigrants who graduate from Kentucky high schools have access to the same affordable college education as their classmates. Summary Like over two dozen other state laws, a Kentucky regulation has long allowed undocumented immigrants who graduate local high schools to attend...
Created 12/17/2025
Last update 01/15/2026
What’s at Stake Along with co-counsel at Public Citizen, Towards Justice, and FarmSTAND, Public Justice filed a lawsuit challenging a recent memorandum from the EEOC directing the closure of all charges alleging disparate impact discrimination and prohibiting the investigation and conciliation of disparate impact charges...
Created 12/15/2025
Last update 12/15/2025
What’s at Stake We filed an amicus brief on behalf of all Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee—the committees that oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—and urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to...
Created 12/15/2025
Last update 12/15/2025
What’s at stake This appeal before the Tenth Circuit raises important questions about access to courts and the link between incarceration and litigation costs. Fees and other costs are used to retaliate against incarcerated people and suppress court claims about prison conditions. Our amicus brief...
Created 12/03/2025
Last update 12/15/2025
What’s at Stake In this case, Amazon unsuccessfully tried to avoid liability for allegedly abusing the most basic rights of transportation workers by forcing the workers’ claims into arbitration using a different company’s arbitration agreement and arguing that these transportation workers are not exempt from...
Created 11/25/2025
Last update 12/15/2025
What’s at Stake This case presents the question whether the president has unilateral authority to, without cause, fire commissioners of independent agencies. Summary In March 2025, President Trump purported to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), partway through the term...
Created 11/25/2025
Last update 12/15/2025
What’s at Stake This case presents us with the opportunity to urge the Ninth Circuit to narrowly interpret its jurisdiction to hear qualified immunity cases on appeal. Judge-made immunity doctrines like qualified and sovereign immunity make litigating claims against government actors like police officers and...
Created 11/25/2025
Last update 12/15/2025
What’s at Stake The case raises important questions about the impact prohibitive court filing fees have on the ability of people who are incarcerated to access the civil legal system. We are increasingly seeing court fees and other costs used to suppress people’s constitutional right to petition the courts. Summary This appeal arises from Appellants...
Created 11/25/2025
Last update 12/22/2025
On Day 1 of the current Trump Administration, the President signed an Executive Order that directed DHS to use immigration fines as a tool to pressure non-citizens to self-deport. The Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) allows for the assessment of fines up to $998/day for...
Created 10/16/2025
Last update 12/15/2025
What’s at Stake Judge-made immunity doctrines like sovereign and qualified immunity make litigating claims against government actors difficult, but especially difficult for the two million people locked up in state and federal prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities across the United States and who already...
Created 10/02/2025
Last update 10/02/2025
What’s at stake: Whether undocumented immigrants who graduate from Oklahoma high schools have access to the same affordable college education as their classmates.
Summary: Like over two dozen other state laws, Oklahoma law has long allowed undocumented immigrants who graduate local high schools to attend public college at the same...