Protect the John F. Kennedy Center Legal Filings
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Legal Filings (in reverse chronological order):
- Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction, filed March 30, 2026
- Memorandum in Support
- Proposed Order
- Declaration of Thaddeus A. Heuer
- Declaration of Rebecca Miller on behalf of the DC Preservation League
- Declaration of Carl E. Landwehr, DC Preservation League Member
- Declaration of Frank Leone, DC Preservation League Member
- Declaration of Zachary Joseph Burt, DC Preservation League Member
- Declaration of Amy Ballard, DC Preservation League Member
- Declaration of Elizabeth S. Merritt on behalf of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Declaration of Alison K. Hoagland, National Trust for Historic Preservation Member
- Declaration of Illya Azaroff on behalf of the American Institute of Architects
- Declaration of Diane Rhyu, Society of Architectural Historians Member
- Declaration of Yiselle Santos Rivera, Society of Architectural Historians Member
- Declaration of Patricia Ann Waddy, Society of Architectural Historians Member
- Declaration of James Aubrey Smailes, Committee of 100 on the Federal City Member and Trustee
- Declaration of de Teel Patterson Tiller, Committee of 100 on the Federal City Member and Trustee
- Declaration of Elizabeth Waytkus on behalf of DOCOMOMO US
- Declaration of John Allen Burns, DOCOMOMO US Member
- Declaration of Charles Alan Birnbaum on behalf of the Cultural Landscape Foundation
- Declaration of Caren Yglesias Livengood, American Society of Landscape Architects Member
- Declaration of Dennis Brian Carmichael, American Society of Landscape Architects Member
- Declaration of Susan Cahill-Aylward, American Society of Landscape Architects Member
- Exhibit 1
- Exhibit 2
- Exhibit 3
- Exhibit 4
- Exhibit 5
- Exhibit 6
- Exhibit 7
- Exhibit 8
- Exhibit 9
- Exhibit 10
- Exhibit 11
- Exhibit 12
- Exhibit 13
- Exhibit 14
- Exhibit 15
- Exhibit 16
- Exhibit 17
- Exhibit 18
- Exhibit 19
- Exhibit 20
- Exhibit 21
- Exhibit 22
- Exhibit 23
- Exhibit 24
- Exhibit 25
- Exhibit 26
- Exhibit 27
- Exhibit 28
- Exhibit 29
- Exhibit 30
- Exhibit 31
- Exhibit 32
- Exhibit 33
- Exhibit 34
- Exhibit 35
- Exhibit 36
- Exhibit 37
- Exhibit 38
- Plaintiffs’ Complaint filed March 23, 2026