Filed Date: June 3, 2026
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[This summary is temporary while we research the case]. On June 3, 2026, a foreign national filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina challenging an Interim Final Rule (IFR) published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on October 30, 2025, which immediately eliminated the Employment Authorization Document (EAD) auto-extension program without notice-and-comment rulemaking. The plaintiff alleged that this IFR, titled Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents, 90 Fed. Reg. 48700, improperly invoked the "good cause" exception to bypass standard rulemaking procedures, relying on a pretextual national security justification and ignoring existing continuous vetting programs — the Automated Threat Level Assessment System (ATLAS) and Continuous Immigration Vetting (CIV) — that already provide real-time monitoring of foreign nationals. The plaintiff further alleged that DHS unreasonably delayed adjudication of her EAD renewal application, which she filed on November 3, 2025, and which remained pending despite an expedited service request submitted on February 11, 2026, and a second request submitted on March 23, 2026, neither of which received a substantive response and placing her employment as an IT engineer and Full Stack Java developer at the Maryland Department of Human Services at risk. Additionally, the plaintiff alleged that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) failed to adjudicate her administrative appeal of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request within the required 20-business-day statutory deadline. The plaintiff sought vacatur of the IFR, an order compelling a decision on her EAD renewal within 30 days, production of records responsive to her FOIA request, and attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA).
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(6/14/2026)
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Parsonage, Helen Louise (North Carolina)
Wasden, Jonathan Del (North Carolina)
See docket on RECAP: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73434730/bade-v-united-states-department-of-homeland-security/
Last updated June 21, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
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Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government
Key Dates
Filing Date: June 3, 2026
Case Details
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Western District of North Carolina 3:26-cv-00436
Case Summary of Bade v. United States Department of Homeland Security, Civil Rights Litig. Clearinghouse, https://clearinghouse.net/case/48209/ (last updated 6/14/2026).