Resource: “Commonwealth v. Lunn” and “Lunn v. Smith”

On March 20, 2017, the ACLU of Massachusetts together with Ropes & Gray, the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and the Federal Immigration Appeals Project submitted an amicus brief in Commonwealth v. Lunn. The case, which was argued at the Supreme Judicial Court on April 4, 2017, addresses whether local and state officials who hold undocumented immigrants on “ICE detainers” are in violation of the Massachusetts state constitution and the United States constitution.