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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
League of Independent Fitness Facilities and Trainers, Inc. v. Whitmer

1:20-cv-00458 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 22, 2020

Closed Date: March 3, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This lawsuit was filed against the state of Michigan by 22 individual companies operating fitness businesses in Michigan and an organization representing over 150 fitness facilities in the state to enjoin executive orders that caused their facilities to remain closed. The court granted a preliminary injunction on June 19. On appeal, the Sixth Circuit stayed the lower court's injunction on June 24. Due to the case being mooted, after the governor's orders were struck down, the …
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arriaga Reyes v. Decker

2:20-cv-03600 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about five men, aged 33 to 59 with underlying medical conditions, detained in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody who petitioned for immediate release based on their vulnerability to serious COVID-19 infection. On April 2, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, but the case was transferred to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey after the court conclu…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Heredia Mons v.McAleenan

1:19-cv-01593 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: A class of asylum seekers detained by the New Orleans ICE Field Office filed an emergency motion for a preliminary injunction, requesting that defendants be compelled to conduct individual parole reviews for every detainee and to consider the risk of COVID-19 to them in determining their eligibility for parole. On April 21, 2020, the court denied the motion for preliminary injunction. On May 30, 2019, asylum seekers detained under the jurisdiction of the New Orleans ICE Field…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Garland v. Gonzalez (Aleman Gonzalez v. Sessions)

3:18-cv-01869 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 27, 2018, immigrant detainees who had been held for more than six months without a bond hearing during the pendency of their removal proceedings petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a writ of habeas corpus; they also sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Represented by Centro Legal de la Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union of California, and private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this class action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 2241, …
NATIONAL SECURITY
In re Opinions & Orders of this Court Addressing Bulk Collection of Data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA Docket Misc. 13-08, FISCR docket 20-1]

13-00008 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2013

Closed Date: April 24, 2020

For the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of FISA matters, see our special collection. On January 17, 2014, following the disclosure of various dragnet National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs by Edward Snowden, the Director of National Intelligence authorized the declassification and public release of numerous orders approving the NSA's so-called "Bulk Telephony Metadata Program" under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("FISA"), commonl…

Motion for the Release of Court Records

In re Opinions and Orders of this Court Addressing Bulk Collection of Data Under The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Nov. 7, 2013

Briefing Order

In re Opinions and Orders of this Court Addressing Bulk Collection of Data Under The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Nov. 8, 2013

Brief of Amici Curiae

In re Opinions and Orders of this Court Addressing Bulk Collection of Data Under The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Nov. 26, 2013

Motion of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 25 Media Organizations for Leave to File Brief as Amici Curiae

In re Opinions and Orders of this Court Addressing Bulk Collection of Data Under The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Nov. 26, 2013

The United States' Opposition to the Motion for The Release of Court Records

In re Opinions and Orders of this Court Addressing Bulk Collection of Data Under The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Dec. 6, 2013

see 26 additional documents
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores Tejada v. Godfrey

2:16-cv-01454 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 14, 2016, a Mexican citizen who had been previously detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the local Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Director of ICE, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Attorney General of the U.S., and the wa…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Sierra Club v. Trump

4:20-cv-01494 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 15, 2019, President Trump issued an executive order, Proclamation 9844, declaring a national emergency concerning the southern border of the United States. Following Proclamation 9844, Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition filed this suit on February 28, 2020 against President Trump and his administration on its own behalf and on behalf of its 825,000 members in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Sierra Club is a national nonprofit organ…
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…