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Castañeda Juarez v. Asher

2:20-cv-00700 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit in which people detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center ("NWIPC"), which houses detainees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), sought their release due to their risk of contracting COVID at this facility. More specifically, petitioners each suffered from underlying medical conditions that placed them at a greater risk of a severe illness or death should they contract COVID. The facility was operated by GEO, a private prison company. On May …
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

Case Ongoing

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…
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
Franco-Gonzalez v. Holder

2:10-cv-02211 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2010

Case Ongoing

The ACLU filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus and class action complaint on March 26, 2010, on behalf of several named plaintiffs with serious mental disorders or disabilities who had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and (like all detainees) denied provision of legal counsel. The plaintiffs filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Many of the documents filed in this case are under seal or otherwise unavailable to t…
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

Case Ongoing

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
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
Vangala v. USCIS

4:20-cv-08143 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

On November 19, 2020, three noncitizens filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) on behalf of themselves and all individuals who had been or would be harmed by a USCIS policy that required applicants for immigration benefits to fill in every response field on their applications, even fields that did not apply to them. This …
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Flores Tejada v. Godfrey

2:16-cv-01454 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 14, 2016, a Mexican citizen who had been previously detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the local Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Director of ICE, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Attorney General of the U.S., and the wa…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Khoury v. Asher

2:13-cv-01367 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2013

Closed Date: May 31, 2019

On August 1, 2013, immigration detainees filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Washington against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) challenging the government's policy and practice of detaining immigrants in deportation proceedings even when they were released from criminal custody some time earlier. They alleged that this practice violates the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and the plaintiffs' due process rights under the Fifth Amendme…