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Lozano v. City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania

3:06-cv-01586 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2016

In this lawsuit, filed on August 15, 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, two property owners challenged the Hazleton, Pennsylvania ordinance penalizing those who rent to or hire undocumented immigrants. This was the first city ordinance of its kind, and the lawsuit received a great deal of press. The ordinance, titled "Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance" (Immigration Ordinance), immediately served as a model for several dozen other cities' similar enac…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Reynolds v. City of Valley Park, Missouri

4:06-cv-01487 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On September 22, 2006, landlords and employers in Valley Park Missouri and the non-profit Equal Housing Opportunity Council brought suit as plaintiffs in state court against the City of Valley Park. Represented by a large group of lawyers from advocacy organizations (including the ACLU), law school clinics, and several St. Louis law firms, the plaintiffs sought a declaration that the City of Valley Park's Ordinance 1708 was unlawful, under both state and federal law, and a temporary, preliminar…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Garrett v. City of Escondido, California

3:06-cv-02434 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2006

This is another case, like those in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (IM-PA-1), Valley Park, Missouri (IM-MO-1), and Riverside, New Jersey (IM-NJ-1, and IM-NJ-2) about a city's efforts to bar undocumented immigrants from its jurisdiction. In this case, the City of Escondido passed an ordinance preventing landlords from renting or "harboring" illegal aliens in their property and imposing other related restrictions on rental and eviction proceedings. On November 3, 2006, a consortium of public interest …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Riverside Coalition of Business Persons and Landlords v. Township of Riverside, New Jersey

06-CV-5521 (RMB) | New Jersey state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 2007

This was the second lawsuit brought against the Township of Riverside, New Jersey, challenging the Town of Riverside Ordinance 2006-16 ("Illegal Immigration Relief Act"), which attempted to ban immigrants from renting, residing, using property, or being employed in Riverside Township. The other case, Assembly of God Church Riverside v. Township of Riverside, New Jersey, Case No.1:06-cv-03842-RMB-AMD, was pending in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey. [IM-NJ-2].The complaint in this case …

Ordinance 2006-26, An Ordinance Amending, Chapter 166, Refered to as the "Illegal Immigration Relief Act", Riverside Township, NJ

Riverside Coalition of Business Persons and Landlords v. Township of Riverside

Jan. 1, 2006

Ordinance 2006-19, Amended Ordinance 2006-16, Referred to as"Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance", Riverside Township, NJ

Riverside Coalition of Business Persons and Landlords v. Township of Riverside

Jan. 1, 2006

Brief in Support of Order to Show Cause and Application For Preliminary Injunctive Relief to Enjoin the Riverside Township Immigration Relief Act

Riverside Coalition of Business Persons and Landlords v. Township of Riverside

Oct. 16, 2006

Verified Complaint

Riverside Coalition of Business Persons and Landlords v. Township of Riverside

Oct. 18, 2006

Memorandum in Support of Township of Riverside Plaintiffs' Application For One of the Plaintiffs to Proceed Anonymously

Riverside Coalition of Business Persons and Landlords v. Township of Riverside

Oct. 18, 2006

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Assembly of God Church Riverside v. Township of Riverside, New Jersey

1:06-cv-03842 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2007

Plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey to challenge the constitutionality of the Town of Riverside Ordinance 2006-16 ("Illegal Immigration Relief Act"), which forbid housing and employment of undocumented immigrants. Plaintiffs alleged that the Ordinance was an improper attempt by local government to enforce federal immigration laws in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and that it caused national origin discrimination in vio…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Stewart v. Cherokee County, GA

1:07-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On January 4, 2007, plaintiffs, the owner and operator of multiple rental units and unnamed tenants, filed suit against Cherokee County, Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to challenge County Ordinance No. 2006-003 which purported to establish penalties for "the harboring of illegal aliens" in the County. The Ordinance was similar to others recently passed by cities seeking to expel undocumented immigrants from their boundaries. Immediately following the f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02376 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 26, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On December 26, 2006 the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU), along with the ACLU's National Immigrants' Rights Project, filed a civil rights suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the City of Farmers Branch, challenging the City's recently adopted Ordinance 2892. The Ordinance required landlords to verify the U.S. Citizenship or "eligible immigration status" of prospec…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch

3:07-cv-00061 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas, to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892. See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch and Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch. This case and two others filed in federal court, Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch and Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch , were assigned to District Court Judge Sam A. Lindsay, and on April 18, 2007…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02371 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2006

Closed Date: Sept. 2, 2010

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas, to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892 (subsequently repealed and reenacted in slightly altered form as Ordinance 2903). See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch and Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch. This case and two others filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch and Barrientos v. City of F…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch

06-12227 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2006

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892. See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch and Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch, cases filed in federal court. Unlike the other three federal suits, plaintiffs filed this action in state court in the 116th Judicial District, Dallas County, Texas, and based their challenge not on the constitution…