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Hernandez v. Balakian

1:06-cv-01383 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2006

Closed Date: May 1, 2008

This was a class action brought in October of 2006 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on behalf of all legal hourly-paid agricultural workers who had been employed by fruit picking companies of Reedley, California owned by defendants. Plaintiff alleged that employees of Fruit Patch, Inc. engaged in a massive scheme to hire undocumented immigrants for the express purpose of depressing employee wages. In furtherance of their scheme, defendants are alleged …
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Espindola v. INS

2:92-cv-01871 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1992

Closed Date: 1995

On January 20, 1992, plaintiffs, represented by the National Immigration Law Center, and the ACLU Immigration Rights' Project filed a class lawsuit against the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging the INS' "Operation Green Card," a plan which required permanent residents to pay $70 to renew green cards (Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form I-151) issued before 1978. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and inj…
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Durgin v. De La Vina

4:95-cv-00029 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1995

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 1999

On January 17, 1995 two motorists who had been stopped by U. S. Border Patrol agents patrolling the Mexican border filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, challenging the constitutionality of the stops. Plaintiffs alleged that the Border Patrol agents engaged in a pattern or practice of routinely stopping motorists without reasonable suspicion. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as class certification. Plaintiffs amen…
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Canales v. Novak

1:99-cv-07450 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1999

Closed Date: 2000

On November 15, 1999, attorneys for the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and private counsel filed suit in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn) on behalf of all Honduras nationals who had timely submitted prima facie applications for temporary protected status with the Vermont Service Center, but who had not received temporary benefits from the INS, such as employment authorization.Our case information is limited to the entries reflected in the PACER docket. According…
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Chintakuntla v. INS

3:99-cv-05211 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 1999

Closed Date: 2003

On December 8, 1999, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the INS denial of employment-based second preference (EB-2) immigrant visa petitions that were filed by U.S. employers and immigrants who sought to obtain work visas for immigrants with certain employment skills and experience. The issue in plaintiffs' complaint was the INS policy of denying EB-2 applications when form ETA 750 specified a Bachelor's degre…
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Soskin v. Reinertson

1:03-cv-00529 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: March 27, 2003

Closed Date: 2005

On March 27, 2003, attorneys for the National Immigration Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project and other advocacy groups filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, challenging the provisions of Colorado Senate Bill 03-176 ("SB 03-176") that terminated Medicaid eligibility for lawfully present immigrants solely on the basis of their status asnon-citizens. Plaintiffs asserted that the law violated …
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National Council of La Raza v. Gonzales

1:03-cv-06324 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2003

On December 17, 2003, a coalition of immigration rights advocacy groups, which included the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Latin American Workers Project (LAWP), and UNITE, filed suit against several federal agencies (FBI, DOJ, ICE, Homeland Security) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, seeking to halt the government practice of entering and disseminating civil immigration…

Complaint

Dec. 17, 2003

Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss

National Council of La Raza v. Ashcroft

April 26, 2004

Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the Complaint For Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction and for Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief May be Granted

National Council of La Raza v. Ashcroft

April 26, 2004

Brief of Amici Curiae National Latino Officers' Association and National Black Police Association in Support of Plaintiffs

National Council of La Raza v. Ashcroft

June 18, 2004

Reply Memorandum of Law in Further Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the Complaint for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction and for Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief May Be Granted

National Council of La Raza v. Ashcroft

July 22, 2004

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Arias v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

0:07-cv-01959 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 19, 2007

Closed Date: Feb. 2, 2010

On April 19, 2007, a group of Latino plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, challenging a series of raids by immigration agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division ("ICE") and local police officials in and around Willmar, Minnesota, between April 10 - 14, 2007. The plaintiffs sued ICE, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), and various ICE and DHS officials and officers in their official capacity (“United States defendant…
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Parinejad v. USICE

1:07-cv-10432 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 2, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On March 2, 2007, a resident alien and two organizations that represent indigent aliens, the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project (PAIR) and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, challenging the mandatory detention provision of Section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c). The plainitff also filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursu…
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Kaplan v. Chertoff

2:06-cv-05304 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 5, 2011

The plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of some 50,000 aliens, humanitarian refugees, and asylees who had lost or were at risk of losing their Social Security supplemental security income (SSI) benefits as a result of alleged delays in their applications for legal permanent residency status and naturalization. Typical members of the proposed class fled tyrannical oppression and sought sanctuary in the U.S, including Russian Jews w…