Which alleged Trump accusers have active civil suits or criminal complaints as of 2026, and where can court dockets be checked?
Executive summary
Several women and protest victims who accused Donald Trump of wrongdoing continue to press civil claims in court as of 2026 — most prominently writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit and Summer Zervos’s defamation case have been tracked in public litigation compilations, while other plaintiffs alleging Trump incited violence at protests have active civil suits; nationwide dockets can be checked through public litigation trackers and official court systems such as PACER for federal cases and state court websites for state filings [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. Who the public reporting identifies as accusers with active civil cases
National trackers and contemporaneous reporting list E. Jean Carroll, who sued Trump for defamation over his public responses to her allegation of sexual assault, and Summer Zervos, who filed a New York state defamation suit after accusing Trump of inappropriate conduct, among the accusers who have active civil litigation histories against Trump [1]. Independent plaintiffs who say they were harmed by violence tied to Trump rallies — named in reporting as Kashiya Nwanguma, Molly Shah and Henry Brousseau — have also sued, accusing Trump and his affiliates of inciting violence at a Louisville protest and placing those civil claims on public case lists [3]. Reporting also notes a broader set of civil claims tied to the January 6 Capitol attack that survive legal challenges and seek to hold Trump civilly liable for alleged instigation of the mob, and those suits remain consolidated in federal filings tracked by major news outlets [5].
2. What “active” means in trackers and how that affects the list
Trackers such as Just Security’s litigation pages and AP’s case tracker compile pending criminal and civil matters and treat ongoing appeals, interventions by other parties such as the Department of Justice, and procedural motions as part of the active docket — for example, Carroll’s defamation case drew a DOJ intervention under the Federal Tort Claims Act that altered its posture in court even as it remained listed in litigation trackers [1]. That procedural activity explains why a case may be labeled “active” even while certain claims are paused, appealed, or subject to jurisdictional questions; users should expect entries in these public trackers to include both live trials and suits in preliminary or appellate stages [4] [1].
3. Where to check federal dockets — PACER and major trackers
Federal filings can be checked directly through PACER, the federal judiciary’s public-access portal (reporters and trackers routinely cite PACER filings), while journalism outlets maintain curated trackers: AP’s criminal-and-civil tracker and Just Security’s tracker compile summaries and links to docket activity to speed navigation for non‑lawyers [2] [4] [1]. Lawfare’s litigation project and other legal trackers also summarize active suits challenging or involving Trump and provide case citations that can be used to pull dockets from PACER [6].
4. Where to check state and local dockets and named cases
State defamation suits and protest-related civil suits often live in state or county courts; Summer Zervos’s suit was filed in New York state court and Carroll’s defamation matters involved New York state filings and related federal procedural events, so New York State unified court system dockets and local county clerk sites are the authoritative sources for those filings [1]. Plaintiffs in protest cases — such as the Louisville plaintiffs named in reporting — are likely listed on the relevant state civil dockets or federal filings if the suit alleges federal claims; public summaries in Wikipedia and news reporting can identify parties and venues to guide searches [3].
5. Caveats, competing claims and where reporting is limited
Public trackers and major outlets provide authoritative starting points but do not replace searching the underlying dockets: trackers interpret and summarize filings and may emphasize certain suits over others, and reporting shows the DOJ or other actors can intervene in or remove state claims to federal court, changing how a matter appears in a tracker [1] [5]. Where the provided reporting does not list every accuser or every civil complaint filed since 2016, it would be inaccurate to claim the list is exhaustive; the sources cited identify the leading, widely reported accusers with active litigation as of 2026 [1] [2] [3].