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Tony N. v. USCIS

3:21-cv-08742 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 2, 2022

This was a putative class action brought by five asylum seekers who sought extensions to their work authorization, but whose extensions were not ruled on promptly; they therefore had either lost or were about to lose the right to work. On November 10, 2021, these five individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”), and the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) under the Ad…
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
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
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
MadKudu Inc. v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

5:20-cv-02653 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

This was a nationwide class action filed by U.S. businesses that challenged the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services's (USCIS) pattern and practice of arbitrarily denying H-1B nonimmigrant employment-based petitions to classify market research analyst positions as "specialty occupations." On April 16, 2020, companies who had such petitions denied filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs sued USCIS and their Senior Official P…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Carranza v. ICE

2:20-cv-00424 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

Closed Date: May 18, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action habeas petition brought on May 4, 2020, by two individuals in ICE custody, seeking better access to phone calls. The defendants moved to dismiss the case on June 29. The magistrate judge recommended the court dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction and deny all other motions as moot; the plaintiffs filed a stipulation of dismissal on May 18, 2021. On May 4, 2020, two individuals in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brought …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Kelly

3:17-cv-02366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 12, 2017, a group of Honduran and Mexican asylum seekers and Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization which supports indigent deportees, refugees, and migrants, filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The pseudonymous plaintiffs fled gang-related and/or severe domestic violence and presented themselves at a Port of Entry (POE) at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek protection; they alleged that they were wrongfully denied access to an…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Palacios v. Sessions

3:18-cv-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2018

Closed Date: May 25, 2020

On January 17, 2018, two immigrants who had been denied bond hearing by judges in the Charlotte Immigration Court filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The plaintiffs sued three judges on the Charlotte Immigration Court and federal officials at the Mecklenburg County Jail Central. The plaintiffs -- represented by the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, the American Immigration Council, and private counsel -- sought…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Wolf

1:19-cv-02369 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the Trump Administration’s decision to expand “expedited removal,” under which low-level Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) immigration officers were allowed to summarily deport individuals from the United States without a court hearing or opportunity for meaningful review. The plaintiffs were a number of nonprofits, including Make the Road New York, La Union del Pueblo Entero, WeCount, the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, and a number of private plaintiffs. The…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.M. v. United States

2:19-cv-05217 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 19, 2019, five asylum-seeking parents, on their own behalf and on behalf of their minor children, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the American Immigration Council, sought monetary relief and attorneys fees. The plaintiffs alleged that the United States government caused intentio…