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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago v. White

1:20-cv-01478 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2020

Closed Date: June 28, 2021

This case alleged that the process implemented by the Illinois Secretary of State and the Illinois Board of Elections (the “Board”) for offering voter registration during certain transactions related to driver’s licenses frustrated Illinois citizens’ ability to register to vote in violation of the National Voter Registration Act, Voting Rights Act, and Illinois’ Automatic Voter Registration statute.   On February 28, 2020, various non-profit organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District…
POLICING
Chang v. County of Siskiyou

2:22-cv-01378 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2022, four plaintiffs seeking to represent the thousands of Hmong and Asian residents of Siskiyou County, California, filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. They were represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus, and private counsel. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes was assigned to the case.  The plaintiffs sued Siskiyou County and its sheriff under …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pars Equality Center v. Pompeo

2:18-cv-01122 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On July 31, 2018, two nonprofit organizations and fifteen individuals filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the Trump Administration's implementation of the waiver provision of the Travel Ban (Presidential Proclamation No. 9645). The Travel Ban indefinitely banned millions of nationals of five Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Pars Equality Center and OneAmerica are immigrant and refugee advocacy o…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
La Unión Del Pueblo Entero v. Trump

8:19-cv-02710 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2019

Closed Date: April 2, 2021

This case challenged President Trump’s Executive Order 13880 directing the Census Bureau to collect citizenship data from administrative records and distribute that data to states in connection with the 2020 decennial census for redistricting. La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), a nonprofit committed to community organizing and civic engagement in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and Promise Arizona (PAZ), a faith-based nonprofit working to build Latino and immigrant political power, and two resident…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Seattle v. Department of Homeland Security

3:19-cv-07151 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a policy of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that made it more difficult for naturalization applicants to obtain fee waiversThe City of Seattle and several nonprofit organizations filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (San Francisco) on October 29, 2019. They challenged new fee waiver policies issued by USCIS. The City--along with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Self-…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
La Unión Del Pueblo Entero v. Ross

8:18-cv-01570 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 31, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

This case is one of many challenging the Census Bureau's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.This lawsuit was filed on May 31, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Greenbelt), by La Union del Pueblo Entero and several other immigrant advocacy groups, seven state legislative caucuses, five state government representatives who represent districts with relatively large non-citizen populations, and two other private plaintiffs. The case was assigned t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Trinh v. Homan

8:18-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2021

On February 22, 2018, four Vietnamese refugees filed this habeas petition and class action lawsuit challenging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly arbitrarily and unlawfully detaining them. In January 2008, the United States and Vietnam entered an agreement governing the repatriation of Vietnamese nationals facing final orders of removal to Vietnam. One limit made part of the agreement was Vietnam's decision not to agree to repatriation of any national who had arrived i…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Chhoeun v. Marin

8:17-cv-01898 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

Two refugees whose families fled Cambodia in the 1970s filed this class action lawsuit, challenging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for arbitrarily and unlawfully detaining them. The plaintiffs represented other Cambodian refugees living in the U.S. since escaping the violence of the Khmer Rouge regime. The plaintiffs argued that ICE violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by unlawfully revoking their release from its custody and detaining them when removal was not rea…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Bhattarai v. Nielsen

3:19-cv-00731 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

On February 10, 2019, a group of beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) from Honduras and Nepal and their U.S.-citizen children filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and private attorneys, sued the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive rel…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Gill v. Department of Justice

3:14-cv-03120 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 10, 2014

Closed Date: April 29, 2019

On July 10, 2014, five U.S. citizens who had their information entered into counterterrorism databases and were subjected to law enforcement scrutiny and interrogation, filed this lawsuit against the Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Program Manager of the Information Sharing Environment ("PM-ISE"). Plaintiffs challenged the legality of a domestic surveillance program, and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. They brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Cal…