Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

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1. factreported

   The Just Security tracker records multiple challenges to anti-DEI orders and downstream terminations, with mixed dispositions including injunctions against particular grant conditions and personnel actions; those case-specific rulings do not establish a corpus-wide invalidation of every anti-DEI measure.

   Anti-DEI executive-order cases and disposition chronology through July 2026

   Federal DEI termination produced program and grant cancellations, followed by partial court limits · Termination implemented; courts enjoined some grant, speech, and employment applications. · reviewed 2026-09-03

2. factreported

   The Just Security tracker records separate challenges to passport, detention, employment, grant, and health-policy implementations tied to the federal sex-definition order, with case-specific injunctions and pending merits questions rather than one all-purpose ruling.

   Executive Order 14168-related cases and disposition chronology

   Federal sex-definition order propagated into passports, detention, grants, and health policy · Implemented across agencies; several passport, detention, grant, and care applications were enjoined. · reviewed 2026-09-03

3. analysisreported

   Protect Democracy explains that the revived Schedule F framework could move tens of thousands of policy-related career roles outside ordinary removal protections and analyzes the resulting loyalty and retaliation risk; coverage estimates are not a count of completed firings.

   Schedule Policy/Career litigation status through July 2026

   Schedule Policy/Career revived at-will exposure for policy-linked civil servants · Classification restored; rulemaking and litigation over covered positions continued. · reviewed 2026-09-03

4. factreported

   The Just Security tracker records injunctions and pending cases concerning grants, insurance, military-family coverage, state regulation, and Justice Department enforcement tied to the under-19 care orders; those dispositions are program- and plaintiff-specific rather than one universal ruling.

   Executive Order 14187 and related care-policy cases through July 2026

   Youth-care order drove funding and enforcement actions that courts reviewed separately · Multiple implementations enjoined or under merits review; coverage varies by court and program. · reviewed 2026-09-03

5. factreported

   The Just Security tracker records multiple challenges to the sports exclusion and related Title IX actions, including plaintiff-specific injunctions and pending merits litigation; those orders protect identified parties and do not by themselves establish nationwide disposition for every school.

   Transgender athletics and Title IX cases with scope of current injunctions

   Transgender-sports order made federal funding and enforcement turn on a contested Title IX reading · Agency enforcement initiated; injunctions protect some plaintiffs while broader cases continue. · reviewed 2026-09-03

6. factreported

   The Just Security tracker records rulings requiring people designated for Alien Enemies Act removal to receive notice and a meaningful opportunity to seek habeas review before transfer; those procedural holdings did not adjudicate every person's alleged Tren de Aragua membership.

   Alien Enemies Act litigation entries and disposition chronology, updated July 2026

   Alien Enemies Act removals met a due-process limit, not blanket judicial approval · Advance notice and an opportunity to challenge are required; merits cases continued in 2026. · reviewed 2026-09-03

7. factreported

   Associated Press reported that the order targeted bargaining coverage across national-security-designated components and that AFGE, representing about 820,000 federal and D.C. workers, prepared litigation; the union's retaliation theory remained an allegation unless and until adopted by a court.

   Federal collective-bargaining exclusion cases and current dispositions

   National-security exclusions removed bargaining rights across agencies representing hundreds of thousands · Exclusions implemented across named components; agency-specific injunctions and appeals followed. · reviewed 2026-09-03

8. factruled-unlawful

   On June 24, 2026, a federal district court converted earlier preliminary relief into a permanent injunction against major parts of Executive Order 14248, including the documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for the federal registration form.

   Executive Order 14248 disposition history through July 2026

   Election-order restrictions advanced from preliminary block to permanent injunction · Key provisions permanently enjoined June 24, 2026; further election-rule litigation continued. · reviewed 2026-09-03

9. factruled-unlawful

   The Just Security tracker records Judge Randolph Moss's March 31, 2026 summary-judgment ruling that the challenged agency funding cutoff constituted unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and retaliation, followed by a permanent injunction against the implementing agencies.

   NPR and PBS funding cases; March 31, 2026 summary judgment and permanent injunction

   Public-media funding cutoff was enjoined as viewpoint discrimination and retaliation · Agency funding cutoff permanently enjoined after a March 31, 2026 merits ruling. · reviewed 2026-09-03

10. factruled-unlawful

    Just Security lists the Perkins Coie executive order as blocked under final district-court judgment and tracks a consolidated government appeal; the filing of an appeal did not itself restore the punitive provisions.

    Perkins Coie final judgment and consolidated appeal status

    Perkins Coie order remained void under final judgment during government appeal · Permanent injunction remained in force during consolidated D.C. Circuit proceedings. · reviewed 2026-09-03

11. factruled-unlawful

    Just Security's tracker records the Jenner & Block order as blocked after final district-court judgment and tracks the government's consolidated appellate proceedings with the Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, and Susman Godfrey cases; no appellate reversal is recorded in the cited July 2026 update.

    Jenner & Block case, final judgment, and consolidated appellate chronology

    Jenner & Block punishment order remained blocked during consolidated appellate review · Permanent injunction remained operative while the D.C. Circuit reviewed the consolidated appeal. · reviewed 2026-09-03

12. factruled-unlawful

    Just Security's tracker records the WilmerHale order as blocked by final district-court judgment and follows the consolidated government appeal; no cited appellate ruling had reinstated the order by the tracker's July 2026 update.

    WilmerHale final judgment and consolidated appellate chronology

    WilmerHale order remained enjoined after a court found its client penalties unconstitutional · Permanent injunction remained operative during the 2026 consolidated appeal. · reviewed 2026-09-03

13. factenjoined

    The Just Security tracker records Harvard's challenge to the foreign-student entry suspension and related attempts to restrict international enrollment, as well as separate litigation over research-funding conditions; the resulting injunctions are claim-specific and should not be collapsed into one universal Harvard ruling.

    Harvard international-student and federal-funding cases, with separate disposition histories

    Harvard student-entry suspension became one front in a wider funding-and-autonomy dispute · Entry suspension challenged and blocked in Harvard litigation; related funding disputes continued. · reviewed 2026-09-03

14. factruled-unlawful

    Just Security records final judgment permanently enjoining the Susman Godfrey order and a consolidated appellate track with the other challenged law-firm orders; it records no restoration of the sanctions in the cited update.

    Susman Godfrey final judgment and consolidated appellate status

    Susman Godfrey order remained permanently blocked through consolidated appeal · Permanent injunction operative; consolidated appellate review continued in 2026. · reviewed 2026-09-03

15. factruled-unlawful

    On June 8, 2026, Judge Leo Sorokin held that the $100,000 H-1B payment was a tax that Congress had not authorized the president to impose and vacated implementing policy; subsequent stay and appellate proceedings affect enforceability but do not erase the district court's stated holding.

    H-1B $100,000 payment cases and post-judgment disposition chronology

    $100,000 H-1B payment was judicially treated as an unauthorized tax · District court held the payment unlawful June 8, 2026; stay and appeal proceedings followed. · reviewed 2026-09-03