(filed February 7, 2025)
City and County of SF, et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al. – San Francisco sued the Trump Administration over its executive orders on immigration enforcement and defunding sanctuary jurisdictions. On April 24, 2025, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of certain sections of the President’s Executive Orders 14159 (“Protecting the American People Against Invasion”) and 14218 (“Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders”) and its related agency directive - February 5, 2025 Attorney General Memorandum “Sanctuary Jurisdictions Directives.” On May 3, 2025, the federal court issued a further order clarifying its preliminary injunction. Subsequent to this order, the federal court again had to clarify in an order its preliminary injunction on May 9, 2025 because the administration issued a new executive order (Executive Order 14287) that repackaged the same threats of withholding funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. The government has appealed the preliminary injunction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (No. 25-3889).
A second complaint adding more cities and counties was filed and a second preliminary injunction was granted, which also clarified that the injunction also blocked the coercive funding conditions regarding immigration enforcement that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) imposed on certain grants. On January 30, 2026, the federal judge denied the government’s motion to dismiss the second amended complaint. The federal case is ongoing.