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Galvez v. Jaddou

2:19-cv-00321 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 5, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 5, 2024

On March 5, 2019, plaintiffs—immigrant youth under the age of 21 who applied for Special Immigrant Juvenile status (“SIJ”)—filed a class action lawsuit in the Western District of Washington on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated to challenge the Trump Administration’s policy of refusing to adjudicate their SIJ petitions in accordance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”). The complaint was filed on behalf of the following proposed class:  “All individuals who have been …

Injunction Granted

Affirmed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez Macareno v. Thomas

2:18-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 21, 2018

Closed Date: May 31, 2019

On March 21, 2018, the plaintiff—a resident of the city of Tukwila, Washington represented by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project—filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington against the Tukwila Police Department and its law enforcement officers for wrongfully detaining him. The plaintiff had initially called 9-1-1 over concerns with a trespasser on his property; however, upon law enforcement officers from the Tukwila Police Department arriving…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Franco Aleman v. Trump

2:25-cv-00163 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2025

Closed Date: Jan. 27, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  On January 24, 2025, a group of pregnant noncitizens filed this class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated in the Western District of Washington. Plaintiffs filed suit against President Trump, and a large nu…

Consolidated: Docket Closed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Nightingale v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

3:19-cv-03512 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 16, 2019

On June 16, 2019, plaintiffs – three immigration attorneys and two noncitizens who filed FOIA (FOIA) requests for individual immigration case files (known as A-Files) – filed this class-action suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that the defendants had a nationwide pattern or p…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez Medina v. Asher [later U.S. Department of Homeland Security]

2:17-cv-00218 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

On February 13, 2017, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- and believed to be the first DACA recipient detained under the Trump administration -- filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Represented by the organization Public Counsel, and by private attorneys including constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, he sought a writ of habeas c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez Macareno v. Thomas

2:18-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 21, 2018

Closed Date: May 31, 2019

On March 21, 2018, the plaintiff — a private resident of Washington — filed a complaint against four City of Tukwila law enforcement officers as well as the City of Tukwila in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Represented by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the plaintiff alleged the defendants violated his Fourth Amendment rights by way of seizure without probable cause. According to the complaint, the plaintiff was unlawfully arrested after calling the poli…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mendez Rojas v. Johnson

2:16-cv-01024 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: June 30, 2016

On June 30, 2016, asylum seekers in this case, represented by the American Immigration Council and partners, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the Attorney General of the United States as well as the directors of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The plaintiffs arg…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Trump

2:17-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2018

This class action lawsuit, filed January 30, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) ban on admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (in Seattle). Plaintiffs were represented by the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Immigration Council. The…