Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights v. McMahon

D.D.C. · 2026 · CourtListener

Cite as Robert F. Kennedy Ctr. for Justice & Hum. Rights v. McMahon, No. 2025-3860, slip op. (D.D.C. June 30, 2026)

DistrictD.C. Cir.Federal executive actions Gender-affirming care Immigration & asylumMostly favorable

The outcome is this project's own coding of how a case turned out, made from the court's record; it is not the court's finding. How it is coded, and how to ask for a correction, is on the About page.

Docket

No. 1:25-cv-03860

Assigned to: Amir H. Ali
Cause: 05:702 Administrative Procedure Act
Nature of suit: 899 Administrative Procedure Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision
Jurisdiction: U.S. Government Defendant
Jury demand: None
Date filed: 2025-11-04
Last filing: 2026-10-26
Terminated: 2026-07-02

Proceedings

D.D.C. · No. 1:25-cv-03860 · Docket on CourtListener

80 docket entries · 22 documents

Robert F. Kennedy Ctr. for Justice & Hum. Rights v. McMahon, No. 1:25-cv-03860 (D.D.C. filed Nov. 4, 2025)

Opinion: District Court, District of Columbia · On CourtListener

The court's opinion, in full text on this site

Robert F. Kennedy Ctr. for Justice & Hum. Rights v. McMahon, No. 2025-3860, slip op. (D.D.C. June 30, 2026)

Recent docket activity

From the case's dockets as the archive holds them; each docket page lists every entry.

2026-10-26 Entry 54#54
2026-08-27 Transmission of the Notice of Appeal, Order Appealed (Memorandum Opinion), and Docket Sheet to US Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals docketing fee was not paid because the appeal was filed by the government re 52 Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court. (mg) (Entered: 08/27/2026)#53
2026-08-27 NOTICE OF APPEAL TO DC CIRCUIT COURT as to 48 Order on Motion to Dismiss,, Order on Motion for Summary Judgment, 47 Memorandum & Opinion, by UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, LINDA MCMAHON. Fee Status: No Fee Paid. (Gonzalez, Heidy) (Entered: 08/27/2026)#52
2026-08-27 USCA Case Number 26-5308 for 52 Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court filed by LINDA MCMAHON, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. (mg)
2026-06-30 AMICUS BRIEF by LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW. (mg) (Entered: 07/06/2026)#51

Show 1 more

2026-06-30 AMICUS BRIEF by EQUALITY CALIFORNIA, GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS, LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND, INC., NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER, OUR FAMILY COALITION, OUTFRONT MINNESOTA, PFLAG GREATER BOSTON, SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GLBTQ+ ELDERS (SAGE). (mg) (Entered: 07/06/2026)#50

Timeline

2025-11-04 Filed: D.D.C., No. 1:25-cv-03860
2026-07-02 Closed: D.D.C., No. 1:25-cv-03860

Filings on file (23 in 15 docket entries)

Filings on file
Date	No.	Document	Type	Pages	Source
	1	Complaint		20	PDF CL
	14	Order		5	PDF CL
	17	Summary Judgment		2	PDF CL

	17-1	Memorandum in Support		45	PDF CL
	17-2	Text of Proposed Order		1	PDF CL
	17-3	Affidavit Declaration of Babette Perez		7	PDF CL
	17-4	Affidavit Declaration of Jorge Loweree		6	PDF CL
	17-5	Affidavit Declaration of Juan Proao		5	PDF CL
	17-6	Affidavit Declaration of Kelsey Louie		5	PDF CL
	18	Errata		45	PDF CL
	19	Leave to File Amicus Brief		1	PDF CL

	19-1	Memorandum in Support		6	PDF CL
	31	Response to motion		33	PDF CL
	32	Dismiss		33	PDF CL

	32-1	Text of Proposed Order		1	PDF CL
	41	Reply to opposition to motion		32	PDF CL
	44	Notice (Other)		2	PDF CL
	46	Notice of Supplemental Authority		2	PDF CL
	47	Memorandum & Opinion		20	PDF CL
	48	Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion to		1	PDF CL
2026-08-27	52	NOTICE OF APPEAL TO DC CIRCUIT COURT as to 48 Order on Motion to Dismiss,, Order on Motion for Summary Judgment, 47 Memorandum & Opinion, by UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, LINDA MCMAHON. Fee Status: No Fee Paid. (Gonzalez, Heidy) (Entered: 08/27/2026)	Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit	2	PDF CL
2026-10-26	54	USCA Order		1	PDF CL
		Document			PDF CL

Browse and search the 23 court documents in the archive for this case.

Litigation

Court cases about transgender and other LGBTQ+ people · federal & state courts

Cases tracked

Case name Court Level Issue / type Circuit Outcome Year ≥ Year ≤

loading…

Case	Court	Level	Cir.	Year	Issue / type	Outcome	Docs

Every case in the corpus. Click a case name for its overview; click any column to sort, again to reverse. Each case has one main issue and may raise others (shown as "also…"); the Issue filter finds a case by either. Issues were checked case by case in September 2026. Level, circuit and outcome come from the coded caselaw dataset, so some rows are blank where a case hasn't been coded yet.

Archive stats

Group by

Direct counts from the archive index — instant and exact. Counts are FILINGS (docket entries); the distinct-case figure is shown alongside.

Cases by issue

Every tracked case once, under its main issue, split by the coded direction of its final ruling (the same reading as "Reached a final ruling" below): favorable or adverse to the LGBTQ-rights claim, or mixed. The empty part of each bar is cases with no coded ruling at the trial, circuit or Supreme Court stage yet, which is most of them; it is not a claim that they have no outcome. Choose a bar to list its cases.

Loading…

Reached a final ruling

The coded direction at the HIGHEST stage a case reached — trial-level, circuit-court or Supreme Court only. A preliminary-injunction ruling never counts as final, and a "procedural, no direction" or "unclear" coding is excluded rather than shown as an outcome.

Loading…

Case duration

Filed to terminated, from real CourtListener docket dates, among cases where EVERY tracked docket has terminated (an open appellate docket alongside a closed district one is pending, not resolved). No stage-by-stage date exists in this corpus, so only this one span is shown; dates cover only the tracked-docket tier — see the coverage note below the numbers.

Loading…

Cases by circuit

A real geographic map, states shaded by their circuit's case count relative to the busiest circuit (linear). The Federal Circuit has no state territory of its own (its jurisdiction is subject matter, not geography) and so never paints here, but still appears in the list and the table. Select a circuit below for its final-ruling mix.

Table view (stages, durations and circuits)

Expert witnesses

Filter Appears in

A curated roster of the recurring expert witnesses in this litigation, with every declaration, expert report, affidavit, deposition and trial-testimony document the corpus holds for each, grouped by case. Coverage is limited by what has been pulled: expert material is heavily attachment-borne, so a witness who testified in ten cases may show fewer here, and some documents are marked in a larger filing — the testimony sits inside an appendix or exhibit set rather than as its own entry.

Judges

Filter Appointed by Coded rulings

The record counts how the judge voted, not how the case came out. Dissents and concurrences are parsed from the opinions themselves ("NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, dissenting"), so a judge who dissented is scored against the panel's result — without that, Judge Niemeyer read 4–3 favorable to trans claimants. Partial dissents are shown but left out of the tally. Votes come from separate-writing headings and from the opinion's own joinder block ("Judge Richardson wrote a dissenting opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson, Judge Niemeyer… joined"), so a judge who joins a dissent without writing one still counts. Judges are resolved to real people against the Federal Judicial Center directory using the deciding court — there are 32 federal judges named Smith, and two Judge Pryors on the Eleventh Circuit. 195 ambiguous name/court pairs were dropped rather than merged, and a case with no opinion text in the corpus keeps the panel result for want of anything better. Small numbers are small numbers: three rulings is not a tendency.