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Cacho v. Gusman

2:11-cv-00225 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2011

Case Ongoing

On February 2, 2011, two immigrant workers , represented by represented by public interest law firms and private counsel, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the sheriff of Orleans Parish. The plaintiffs were held in the Orleans Parish Prison for more than 160 and 90 days, respectively, because of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold requests, which were supposed to be limited to 48 hours according the federal agency's rules.O…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lowcountry Immigration Coalition v. Haley

2:11-cv-02779 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2011

Case Ongoing

On October 12, 2011, a coalition of immigrant rights groups and individual immigrants filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division, against the State of Carolina and Charleston County. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of South Carolina, the national ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Immigration Law Center, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orantes-Hernandez v. Meese

2:82-cv-01107 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 4, 1982

Case Ongoing

In 1982, a group of Salvadoran refugees filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, challenging practices and procedures of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in detaining, processing, and removing those seeking political asylum from El Salvador. The plaintiffs alleged that the INS (1) used coercive tactics to cause Salvadorans to accept "voluntary departure" to El Salvador; (2) failed to advise them of their right to co…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. v. Executive Office for Immigration Review

1:20-cv-03812 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 23, 2020, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, with several other immigration service organizations, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Catholic Legal Immigration Network sued the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Administrative Procedure Act. Represented by private counsel, the National Immigration Law Center, and the American Immigration Council, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) sought a stay in the ef…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Pompeo

1:19-cv-11633 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implement…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
La Clinica de la Raza v. Trump

4:19-cv-04980 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public charge…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Migrant Justice v. Nielsen

5:18-cv-00192 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

Case Ongoing

On November 14, 2018, Migrant Justice, Inc. and four individual members of the organization filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and the United States under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908). The plaintiffs, represented by the various public interest organiz…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vo v. Gee

2:16-cv-15639 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2016

Closed Date: 2018

On October 18, 2016, a Louisiana naturalized citizen filed this lawsuit against the State of Louisiana in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for denying his constitutional rights to marriage. Proceeding under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the plaintiff challenged the constitutionality of Louisiana’s Act 436, which required all applicants for a marriage license to provide a certified birth certificate and permitted this requirement to be waived by individuals born in the U.S. The p…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Jewish Family Service of Seattle v. Trump

2:17-cv-01707 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 13, 2019

This action challenged the Trump Administration's third attempt to suspend the United States Refugee Admissions Program (the "USRAP"), a program administered by a consortium of federal agencies and nonprofit organizations working to identify and admit qualified refugees for resettlement into the United States, by issuing the Executive Order on Resuming the United States Refugee Admissions Program with Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and accompanying Memorandum (together, "EO-3").The executive ord…