Chiles v. Salazar
24-539
Court Desk July 19, 2026
Court News
What has moved in the federal courts lately, and where I covered it. Every item links straight to the case, its docket, and the plain-English breakdown. For live Supreme Court rulings, see Opinions; for the full list, the case tracker.
Coney Island Auto Parts v. Burton
24-808
A Tennessee company sued a Brooklyn auto shop for $47,000, the Brooklyn shop ignored it on the theory that Tennessee had no personal jurisdiction over them, a default judgment was entered anyway, and then years later som…
Carter v. United States
24-860
Carter v. United States (24-860) is a Supreme Court case addressing whether a criminal defendant who enters a conditional guilty plea preserving a suppression issue may raise on appeal a Fourth Amendment argument based o…
O'Hara v. Beck
1:25-cv-03753
Sam O'Hara, a D.C. resident who played The Imperial March to protest the National Guard deployment in D.C., sued the Trump administration over his arrest by the MPD.
Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC
16-499
The Supreme Court held that the Alien Tort Statute does not permit federal courts to impose liability on foreign corporations for human rights violations committed abroad, resolving a decades-long question about the reac…
NJ Transit v. Colt
24-1113
Pitts v. Mississippi
24-1159
Pitts v. Mississippi is a case in which Jeffrey Clyde Pitts petitions against the State of Mississippi, likely in a post-conviction or direct appeal context raising federal constitutional claims. Mississippi capital case…
Doe v. Dynamic PT
25-180
Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy is a case in which a John Doe petitioner brings claims against a physical therapy provider and associated defendants. The 25-180 docket number suggests a circuit court appeal or SCOTUS cer…
Flowers v. Mississippi
17-9572
Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the same quadruple murder in Winona, Mississippi, with the same prosecutor using peremptory strikes to remove virtually every Black prospective juror across the trials. The Supreme …
American Bar Association v. Executive Office of the President
1:25-cv-01888
The American Bar Association sued the Trump administration over the president's attacks on law firms.
Taylor v. Trump
25-cv-03742
President Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people to life without the possibility of parole, and on day one, Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his attorney general to ensure they were imprisoned in…
District of Columbia v. Trump (Nat Guard deployment 202)
1:25-cv-03005
Washington, D.C. sued the Trump administration after the president deployed more than 2,000 National Guard troops into the city to conduct armed patrols, searches, and arrests without the Mayor's consent. A federal distr…
City and County of San Francisco v. Trump
3:25-cv-01350
San Francisco and eventually dozens of other jurisdictions are challenging the Trump administration's effort to cut federal funding from cities that won't cooperate with ICE. The constitutional limit the plaintiffs are r…
Global Health Council v. President Trump (2025 Foreign Aid, DDC)
1:25-cv-00402
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Journalism Development Network, Inc., represented by Public Citizen, sued the Trump administration for the actions taken to dismantle USAID and foreign aid freeze. This case was co…
Nemeth-Greenleaf v. United States Office of Personnel Management
1:25-cv-00407
5 federal government employees sued OPM, acting OPM Director Ezell, the Treasury Department, and Treasury Secretary Bessent over the access granted to DOGE-affiliated employees of their personal information. Plaintiffs a…
Comans v. Department of Homeland Security
1:25-cv-00624
Mary Comans, a member of the Senior Executive Service at FEMA, sued the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA over her termination, alleging that her firing was done without cause or the due process required by law an…
The Sustainability Institute v. Trump (Sustainability Injunct 2)
2:25-cv-02152
11 community groups sued the Trump administration over the freezing of grants congressionally authorized in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Emily Ley Paper Inc. v. Trump
1:25-cv-00096
Emily Ley Paper Inc., aka Simplified sued the Trump administration over the use of emergency power to impose a tariff on imports from China.
American Federation Of Government Employees v. Trump (AFGE coalition 2025)
3:25-cv-03698
A coalition of labor organizations, non-profits, and local governments sued the Trump administration over the efforts taken to dismantle executive agencies and significantly reduce the federal bureaucracy.
United State of America v. Vermont
2:25-cv-00463
The Trump administration sued Vermont over a state law, the Climate Superfund Act, that require companies that extract and refine fossil fuels to contribute to a fund that pays for damages caused by climate change.
National Public Radio v. Trump
1:25-cv-01674
The National Public Radio, Inc. sued the Trump administration over President Trump's executive order, "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media" which directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to withhold all …
New Jersey v. Office of Management and Budget
1:25-cv-11816
A coalition of states sued the Trump administration over the mass cancellation of federal grants.
Slaughter v. Trump (Slaughter FTC Judg 2025)
25-5261
The government appealed Judge Alikhan's order granting summary judgement for Rebecca Slaughter and finds that the firing of her as FTC commissioner was unlawful.
California v. USDA
3:25-cv-06310
A coalition of states sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its demand that states turn over the personal information of SNAP applicants and recipients.
African Communities Together v. Lyons
1:25-cv-06366
2 non-profit organizations sued the Department of Homeland Security over the the detention of immigrants following their immigration hearings in court.
Americans United for Separation of Church and States v. United States
1:25-cv-02547
Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the State Department, seeking information related to investigations of instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden…
Make the Road New York v. Kristi Noem
25-5320
The government appealed Judge Cobb's order granting the plaintiff's motion for a stay of the agency's action which pauses the implementation of the DHS's new rule on expedited removal.
Comey v. Department of Justice
1:25-cv-07625
Maureen Comey, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, sued Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice over her termination which she alleges was without cause and without any opportunity to…
League of Women Voters v. Department of Homeland Security
1:25-cv-03501
The League of Women Voters and Electronic Privacy Information Center sued the Trump administration over a proposal to consolidate American's sensitive personal information into one centralized database in the Department …
Mazak Corporation v. United States
1:25-cv-00249
Mazak Corporation sued the Trump administration over President Trump's Liberation Day tariffs and subsequent modifications made to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
Gadot America, Inc. v. United States Customs and Border Protection
1:25-cv-00257
Gadot America, Inc. sued the Trump administration over President Trump's Liberation Day tariffs and subsequent modifications made to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
United States v. Letitia James
25-4673
The government appealed Senior United States District Judge McGowan Currie's orders granting Comey and James' motions to dismiss which also found that Lindsey Halligan's appointment to serve as U.S. attorney was unlawful…
United States v. James Comey
25-4674
The government appealed Senior United States District Judge McGowan Currie's orders granting Comey and James' motions to dismiss which also found that Lindsey Halligan's appointment to serve as U.S. attorney was unlawful…
Beatty v. Trump
1:25-cv-04480
Rep. Joyce Beatty sued the Trump administration over the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to include Donald Trump's name against congressional statute.
Aceituno v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
3:26-cv-00146
U.S. citizens and lawfully present immigrants residing in North Carolina sued the Trump administration over immigration enforcement actions in North Carolina which resulted in plaintiffs being detained without a warrant.
Doe v. Noem (TPS Yemen 2026)
1:26-cv-02280
Yemeni nationals and TPS holders sued the Department of Homeland Security, challenging Secretary Noem's cancellation of temporary protected status for Yemen.
Phang v. Blanche
1:26-cv-01417
Journalist and attorney Katie Phang sued Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the DOJ's failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (Public Law 119-38), which Congress passed nearly unanimously and Pres…
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Kennedy
4:20-cv-00283
Insurance companies sued to avoid covering HIV-prevention medication without a copay, arguing that the government board that decides which preventive treatments insurers must cover was unconstitutionally appointed. The h…
Dred Scott v. Sandford
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott (a man who had been enslaved) was not a citizen of Missouri or the United States and therefore couldn't even bring a lawsuit in federal court, holding that Black Americans…
Zherka v. Bondi
22-1108
Zherka v. Bondi is a federal appellate case at docket 22-1108. The worklist slug field contains a mismatch: the listed slug is reuben-haley-petitioner-v-urban-outfitters-inc, which appears to be a different case entirely…