Tracking lawsuits against government agencies, unconstitutional policies, and civil rights violations. From First Amendment cases to federal agency disputes follow the legal casess shaping American rights.
When the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order on June 30, 2026, most of the coverage focused on the result: a bare majority preserved citizenship for nearly everyone born on American soil. Less attention went to a smaller detail buried in the reasoning — a phrase Chief Justice John Roberts used…
Here’s the thing most articles on this topic skip: small claims court isn’t a separate legal system from a civil lawsuit. It’s a civil lawsuit. Small claims is a simplified, lower-dollar division that lives inside the same civil court system as everything else — just stripped down and sped up. Once you get that, the…
Two separate legal wars are being fought over how the November 2026 midterms will actually work — one over district maps, one over who gets to vote and how. Both are moving fast, and one of them was just resolved by the Supreme Court hours before this was written. Here’s the full state of play,…
Two of New York’s most prominent Democrats sued the Trump administration on the same day, in the same courthouse, over the same rule — and they filed two separate cases to do it. That’s not redundancy. It’s strategy. Here’s who’s suing, why the cases are split apart instead of combined, and what each side brings…
If your credit report still shows a debt as “past due” months after a bankruptcy court discharged it — you weren’t imagining that something was wrong. Dennis Goyette filed three separate class action lawsuits against Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, No. 8:26-cv-01838, No. 8:26-cv-01840, and No. 8:26-cv-01841, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District…
The University of Northern Iowa has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit with a tenured professor who sued UNI and 11 administrators for civil rights, Title IX, and free speech violations. The case, DeSoto v. University of Northern Iowa et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern…
A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas accuses Return to the Land, a whites-only community in Lawrence County, of violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to sell property to a woman based on her race and religion. The plaintiff, Michelle Walker, is a woman of Jewish ancestry…
Tennessee will pay $835,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a retired police officer who was jailed over Facebook posts about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail after Perry County authorities charged him with making a threat tied to memes he shared following Kirk’s death. Prosecutors later dropped…
A coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday challenging a Trump administration rule that limits access to federal student loans for borrowers earning a graduate degree in several popular, healthcare-related fields. The total coalition, including Maryland as a co-leader, brings the count to 25 states plus…