Case Database
Created 12/03/2025
Last update 12/03/2025
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 11/25/2025
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 12/03/2025
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 11/25/2025
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...
Created 11/25/2025
Last update 11/25/2025
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 11/17/2025
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...
Created 10/01/2025
Last update 10/01/2025
What’s at stake: Ensuring that seemingly “neutral” school dress and grooming codes do not discriminate against students on the basis of race, gender, or cultural identity.
This case challenges a discriminatory dress and grooming code administered by a Texas public high school. The case was filed in May of...
Created 09/30/2025
Last update 09/30/2025
What’s at Stake Twenty-two youth plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana to challenge a coordinated set of executive orders issued earlier this year. The challenged executive orders “unleash” fossil fuel development and amount to a wholesale attack...
Created 09/26/2025
Last update 09/26/2025
What’s at Stake This is an appeal in the Second Circuit involving the application of the Ending Forced Arbitration in Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA). Summary Rebecca Brazzano was employed in the New York office of Thompson Hine LLP, a law firm. She...
Created 09/25/2025
Last update 09/25/2025
What’s at Stake Under Pennsylvania law, contracts waiving the right to a jury trial are only effective if the person waiving the right has full knowledge and understanding of the terms of the contract. The primary question before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is whether Uber’s...
Created 09/15/2025
Last update 09/15/2025
What’s at Stake The issue before the Ohio Supreme Court in this case is whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts Ohio law that gives people the right to immediately appeal a court order that grants a motion to compel arbitration and stays court proceedings...