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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Damus v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-00578 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 15, 2018

This class action suit, filed on March 15, 2018, sought to enjoin the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from detaining asylum seekers in order to deter other potential migrants from seeking refuge in the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and private counsel, were asylum seekers who had been detained without individualized determinations that they posed a flight risk or danger to the community. The plaintiffs sued DHS and alleged violations of the Immigration and Na…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
O.A. v. Trump

1:18-cv-02718 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2023

On November 20, 2018, a group of asylum seekers challenged the federal government’s latest asylum policy, which prohibited people who enter the United States along the southern border somewhere other than a designated port of entry from obtaining asylum. Specifically, the plaintiffs challenged an interim final rule promulgated on November 9, 2018, declaring all those subject to a presidential proclamation concerning the southern border ineligible for asylum. The plaintiffs also challenged the "…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition v. Trump; I.A. v. Barr

1:19-cv-02117 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

This Clearinghouse entry describes two consolidated lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration's new asylum rule, which reversed longstanding asylum laws that allow individuals to seek asylum in the U.S. regardless of how they arrive in the country. The first one was filed in July 2019 by Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (CAIR) and Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), represented by Human Rights First and private counsel; the second was filed in Au…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
U.T. v. Barr

1:20-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2020

On January 15, 2020, six individual plaintiffs, along with the Tahirih Justice Center and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Trump Administration’s new policy of removing asylum seekers to Guatemala pursuant to an “asylum cooperative agreement” (ACA). The individual plaintiffs wereare noncitizens who came to the U.S. seeking asylum and were subsequently removed to Guatemala pursuant to the new polic…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wright v. Anderson

2:20-cv-03704 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

This habeas petition was filed by ten individuals in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awaiting the resolution of their removal proceedings against the wardens of Essex County Correctional Facility and Elizabeth Detention Center, ICE, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General of the United States. Represented by Human Rights First and several private firm attorneys, the petitioners filed their petition on April 6, 2020 in the U.S. District Co…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Noem

1:25-cv-10495 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2025

This putative class action lawsuit, filed on February 28, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, challenges the steps the Trump administration has taken to close off various paths into the United States for immigrants. Those paths included "Uniting for Ukraine" (U4U) for Ukrainians displaced by the war with Russia; special processes for nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) responding to the natural disasters and/or political strife in those coun…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-10676 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

This class action challenges Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportations of noncitizens to countries that are not their designated country of removal, without first providing an opportunity for the noncitizen to demonstrate fear of persecution, torture, and even death in the chosen third country. Four anonymous class plaintiffs, all noncitizens from Central America currently residing in Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit on March 23, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Ma…

Motion for Class Certification

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction and Stay of Administrative ActionPlaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Class Action Complaint

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction and Stay of Administrative Action

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

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Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chung v. Trump

1:25-cv-02412 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

On March 24, 2025, Yunseo Chung, a lawful permanent resident and undergraduate student at Columbia University, filed this complaint and petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the government's retaliatory immigration enforcement actions against her in response to her participation in pro-Palestine campus protests. She sued President Trump and several high-ranking officials, including the Secretary of State, the Attorney Ge…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Iverson v. Trump

1:25-cv-01353 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

Closed Date: May 13, 2025

This case challenged an Executive Order signed by President Trump that imposed criminal and civil penalties on any U.S. person who provided services to or for the benefit of a sanctioned person at the International Criminal Court. On May 5, 2025, a U.S. citizen prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Se…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)