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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Perez Parra v. Castro

1:24-cv-00912 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Venezuelans who had been ordered to be deported but, due to strained relations between the United States and Venezuela, had been detained indefinitely.  Plaintiffs are three Venezuelans who were detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more than nine months. Represented by the ACLU of New Mexico, Las Americas Immigrant Adv. Center, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on September 13, 2024 in the United States Dis…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

3:25-cv-01963 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the detention and attempted deportation of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the campus protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University throughout the spring of 2024. Khalil was a lawful permanent resident of the United States in possession of a green card who had recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia. On March 8, 2025, agents from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) detained Khalil at his apartment, stating that his student visa had…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Cuccinelli

1:19-cv-07993 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Trump Administration’s reinterpretation of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “public charge” rule (“the Rule”).  On August 27, 2019, Make the Road New York, African Services Committee, Asian American Federation, Catholic Charities Community Services, and Catholic Legal Immigration Network (the “plaintiffs”), filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case was assigned to Judge George B. Daniels. Repr…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center v. Noem

1:25-cv-00418 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case concerned the denial of counsel to immigrant detainees by the second Trump Administration. On February 12, 2025, several immigration non-profits and an unknown number of immigrants detained at Guantanamo Bay filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (“ICE”), the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. State Department, and the heads of each depart…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr

4:19-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the ability of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue new guidelines on asylum application procedures and whether DHS is allowed to issue a rule that asylum seekers must first apply for asylum in another country before applying in the U.S. On July 16, 2019, four advocacy organizations — the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law Lab, and the Central American Resource Center — challenged a new asylum policy of the Trump administration narrow…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Kelly

3:17-cv-02366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the legality of the government’s treatment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. On July 12, 2017, a group of Honduran and Mexican asylum seekers and Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization which supports indigent deportees, refugees, and migrants, filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The pseudonymous plaintiffs fled gang-related and/or severe domestic violence and presented themselves at a Port of Entry (PO…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Black Love Resists in the Rust v. City of Buffalo

1:18-cv-00719 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: June 28, 2018

Case Ongoing

On June 28, 2018, Black Love Resists in the Rust and four individual plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the City of Buffalo under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of their rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment, and under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, and the Wester…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Stanley v. Ivey

03-CV-2024-900649 | Alabama state trial court

Filed Date: May 1, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about forced prison labor in Alabama. In 2022, Alabama voters approved a new state Constitution that banned slavery and involuntary servitude without exceptions for prison labor. In January 2023, after a widespread labor strike in the prisons, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed an executive order that allowed prisons to penalize incarcerated people for not working by removing their good-time credits and making it harder to get good-time credits in the future. On May 1, 2024, six in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Center for Constitutional Rights v. United States Department of Defense

1:23-cv-07689 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2023

Case Ongoing

On August 30, 2023, the Center for Constitutional Rights, represented by itself and Muslim Advocates, filed this lawsuit against the United States Department of Defense, United States Department of Homeland Security, and United States Department of State in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In this lawsuit, the Center for Constitutional Rights sought public release of agency records from defendants under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. §§ …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Closed Date: March 11, 2024

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…