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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
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Murillo v. Musegades

3:92-00319 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 1992

In 1992, attorneys for the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project in Texas filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas to enjoin the practice of U.S. Border Patrol agents stopping, detaining, and questioning Hispanic individuals within the Bowie High School District, El Paso, Texas. Plaintiffs maintained that the conduct of the Border Patrol agents was unlawful and in violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Pla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Agarwal v. District Director of U.S. INS

68-01957 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: 1968

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 1969

In 1968, a 39 year old non-immigrant industrial trainee from India filed a petition for Judicial Review of a decision rendered by the Regional Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Services against the District Director of the U.S. INS in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Petitioner instituted this action for review of the District Director's decision denying his petition for classification under section 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Peti…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Akhtar v. Burzynski

8:02-cv-00245 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 7, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On March 7, 2002, children of lawful permanent U.S. residents filed a lawsuit under 28 U.S.C. Section 2201 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, challenging the validity of an "age-out" provision in regulations governing nonimmigrant "V" visas. V visas were established as part of the Legal Immigration Family Equity Act of 2000 (LIFE Act) and granted temporary lawful status to spouses and children of l…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh

3:85-cv-03255 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 7, 1985

Closed Date: May 24, 1999

On July 7, 1985, religious and refugee service organizations and two individual undocumented aliens brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against various government officials, including the United States Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, challenging prosecutions for harboring undocumented aliens. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants' application of immigration laws violated the First Amendment and equal protection. The plaintiff…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Angco v. Haig

2:79-cv-04636 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 1979

Closed Date: 1981

In 1979, a group of Philippine permanent visa applicants who were working as registered nurses in the U.S. under temporary visas filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to challenge the way visas were being distributed under Section 202(e) of the 1976 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1152 (e). That section changed the manner in which citizens of a foreign country were admitted to the U.S. as permanent residents. Under the a…
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Aparcio v. Blakeway

5:00-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 14, 2000

Closed Date: 2002

On April 14, 2000, three Mexican nationals who had applied for naturalization filed a class-action lawsuit against the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleging that the INS improperly used and relied upon confidential information taken from their prior applications made in the Special Agricultural Worker (SAW) program, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1160 et seq. Under the SAW program, seasonal agricultural workers could apply for "tempora…
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Zambrano v. INS

2:88-cv-00455 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 12, 1988

Closed Date: 2002

On April 12, 1988, six undocumented aliens filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging regulations issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"), which implemented the legalization provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). This case was one of three "late amnesty cases" filed in the federal courts in California against the INS. The other two cases were Catholic Social Services v. Meese, 2…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Betrand v. Sava

1:81-cv-07371 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 25, 1981

Closed Date: 1982

In 1982, Haitians incarcerated in an immigration detention facility in New York, pending their applications for political asylum, filed petitions for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the INS' parole policy as it was applied to Haitians. In two separate cases, the District Court (Judge Robert L. Carter) certified a proposed class of Haitians and granted writs of habeas corpus, finding that the I…