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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cacho v. Gusman

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

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zelaya v. Miles

3:19-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Closed Date: March 2, 2023

This is a racial profiling and illegal seizure case about an immigration raid at an East Tennessee meat processing plant conducted by officers from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”). In April 2018, DHS officers were assisting with an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) search related to alleged climes of the plant’s owner, but during the search, the DHS  officers seized and arrested approximately 100 Latinx workers without regard to their immigration status, while berating them with raci…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
P.K. v. Tillerson

1:17-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2017

Case Ongoing

A group of diversity visa lottery winners and their family members filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on August 3, 2017. The defendants included the US Secretary of State and consular officials. The plaintiffs were represented by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, and private counsel. The plaintiffs challenged the State Department’s practice of denying immigrant visas to diversity lottery winners from cou…
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
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
International Refugee Assistance Project (“IRAP”) v. Trump

8:17-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

On February 7, 2017, five immigrant advocacy organizations and fifteen individual immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (in Greenbelt). Represented by the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, executive order (EO). The order restricted admission to the U.S. for nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries and suspended the U.S. refugee program. The plaintiffs allege…
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
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
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…