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Jun 17, 2026
Child Advocate for the State of Rhode Island, et al. v. United States
Attorneys for the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island (LCRI) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU) filed an emergency motion to quash a subpoena issued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking the sensitive private medical records of minor patients who have received medical treatment for gender dysphoria at Rhode Island Hospital.
Case name: In the Matter of Administrative Subpoena 25-1431-032
Civil action number: 4:26-MC-00006-O
This page was previously titled Administrative Subpoena – Private Medical Records of Minors
Sep 29, 2026
RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence v. Blanche
A nationwide group of 25 state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions, led by the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV), filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from imposing unlawful restrictions on grants issued by the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
This case was formerly named RICADV v. Bondi.
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May 20, 2019
Aguasvivas v. Pompeo
This is a “friend of the court” brief in an immigration case where the federal government is claiming that a person who will likely be tortured if he is extradited back to his home country cannot rely on that fact to prevent his return.
May 7, 2019
Association of RI Authors v. Savage
This is a federal lawsuit challenging the RI Division of Taxation’s position that a sales tax exemption for Rhode Island authors applies only to works of fiction, and not to non-fiction - because non-fiction is not “creative and original.”
Feb 28, 2019
Davis v. RI Department of Corrections
This is a class-action lawsuit against the RI Department of Corrections (DOC) claiming that the facility failed to provide adequate heat to at least two cell blocks for more than a month and a half.
Dec 31, 2018
Foxy Lady v. City of Providence
This is “friend of the court” brief arguing that the Providence Board of Licenses’ revocation of the Foxy Lady’s entertainment license, and the failure to issue a stay of the decision pending full judicial review, violate the club’s First Amendment rights.
Oct 17, 2018
Morgan v. Kilmartin
This is an appeal filed on behalf of former House Minority Leader Patricia Morgan whose access to documents pertaining to the former Attorney General’s expenditure of more than $50M in funds from the “Google settlement” was was stymied by hundreds of questionable redactions.
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