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POLICING
Schiller v. City of New York

1:04-cv-07922 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2004

Closed Date: April 8, 2014

On October 7, 2004, this action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by individuals who participated in demonstrations in New York City during the Republican National Convention (RNC). The plaintiffs’ complaint sought compensatory damages, attorney’s fees, and to have the actions of the NYPD, in particular the arrest procedure and conditions of detention, declared unlawful. The case was assigned to Judge Kenneth M. Karas. During the convention, the police c…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Jones v. Stanford

1:20-cv-01332 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit about whether the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) can ban individuals required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) from accessing social media and the internet. On March 12, 2020, six people required to register under SORA filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where it was assigned to District Judge Raymond J. Dearie. The plaintiffs sued the Chairwoman of the New Yor…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Velesaca v. Decker

1:20-cv-01803 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This case was initially filed in February 2020 to address the absence of bond hearings for ICE detainees in New York. Then on March 16, 2020, in light of the grave threat posed by congregate detention during the coronavirus pandemic, plaintiffs sought emergency relief: individualized determinations assessing whether detention is necessary in light of flight risk/public safety, and releases where it is not. On March 31, the Court issued an order granting this relief and enjoini…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
New York Immigration Coalition v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-05025 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 26, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On March 26, 2018, the Secretary of Commerce ordered that the 2020 Census add a question about citizenship for the first time since 1950. On June 6, 2018, the New York Immigration Coalition, Casa, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the ADC Research Institute, and Make the Road New York—all advocacy and non-profit organizations—filed this action against the Department of Commerce and Bureau of Census in response. Represented by private counsel, the New York Civil Liberties Union, a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Onosamba-Ohindo v. Barr

1:20-cv-00290 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class action suit about bond hearings for detainees under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The issue is whether due process under the Fifth Amendment allows the government to place the burden of proof for whether the person being detained poses a flight risk (and therefore shouldn't be released) on the detainee themselves. Another issue is whether Immigration Judges are required by the INA or Department of Justice regulations to consider the detainee's ability to pay bond an…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bergamaschi v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-02817 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action challenging a New York law that requires mandatory detention of all alleged parole violators. The plaintiffs sought to enjoin application of the law and argued the lawsuit took on "particular urgency" due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The court denied the motion for preliminary injunction on April 20. Both parties filed for summary judgment in late 2020. The court granted summary judgment for the defendants on March 10, 2021 and ordered the case clo…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.V.M. v. Lloyd

1:18-cv-01453 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2018, a minor child detained by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff sued ORR under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Declaratory Judgement Act, and petitioned for writs of habeas corpus and mandamus. The plaintiff, an immigrant represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, alleged th…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lewis-McCoy v. Wolf

1:20-cv-01142 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class-action lawsuit concerns the Trump administration’s decision to block New York residents from participating in the Global Entry program, allegedly in retaliation for the state’s Green Light Law, which allows undocumented immigrants to obtain New York driver’s licenses and limits federal immigration officials’ access to records held by New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Since February 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has operated a nationwide Global Entry prog…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project v. Barr

1:19-cv-06443 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 11, 2019

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2019

On July 11, 2019, a group of organizations dedicated to helping immigrant families and children including Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Central American Resource Center – LA, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, and Public Counsel filed this lawsuit, pro se, in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, sued Attorney General William Barr, the directors of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other U.S. officials under E…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Perez v. Decker

1:18-cv-10683 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the indefinite detention of immigrants pending their removal proceedings by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”). On November 15, 2018, a 43-year-old New York resident who had been arrested and detained in a New York detention center filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, a husband and father of two, sued the U.S. government, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. …