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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.P.F. v. United States

2:20-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

The Trump Administration implemented an immigration policy from 2017 to 2018, which called for the separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.  Two immigrant parents filed this lawsuit on January 10, 2020 against the U.S. government in the U.S. District Court for Arizona.  The case was originally assigned to District Judge Susan M. Brnovich.  These parents were allegedly separated by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials for two months from their children, who were sent …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zelaya v. Miles

3:19-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is an ongoing racial profiling and illegal seizure case about an immigration raid at an East Tennessee meat processing plant conducted by officers from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”). In April 2018, DHS officers were assisting with an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) search related to alleged climes of the plant’s owner, but during the search, the DHS  officers seized and arrested approximately 100 Latinx workers without regard to their immigration status, while berating them …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Florida v. U.S.A.

8:21-cv-00541 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 8, 2021

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 2022

This is a case about President Biden’s Executive Order 13993, which revoked an Executive Order from the previous administration and prompted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to issue memoranda affecting the U.S. policy of deporting criminal non-citizens who were present in the United States before November 20, 2020. On March 8, 2021, the State of Florida filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Flor…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
K.O. & E. O. v. United States

4:20-cv-12015 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 9, 2020, several asylum-seeking immigrant parents and children forcefully separated upon arrival in the United States filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. District Judge Timothy S. Hillman was assigned to the case. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed suit under the Federal Torts Claims Act, seeking monetary damages as well as injunctive relief. They alleged the United States government was liable for…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Anderson v. Cornejo

1:97-cv-07556 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 1997

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2006

In this case, African–American women alleged that they were subjected to improper searches at customs in O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. The case was initially brought by a single plaintiff in October 1997. In May 1998, a class action complaint was filed with 18 named plaintiffs. In 1999, another case was filed by 38 African-American women. Although each case was filed separately, the claims were essentially identical. The plaintiffs alleged that employees of the U.S. Customs…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Morales v. United States

1:17-cv-05052 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2020

This suit, filed on Dec. 11, 2017, challenged the legality of a series of immigration raids in the Atlanta area. The complaint stated that, in response to a 2015 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) directive titled "Operation Border Resolve," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeted families from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala living in nine major U.S. cities, including Atlanta. As part of the directive, the complaint alleged, ICE agents were to be trained on the Fou…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.M. v. United States

2:19-cv-05217 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 19, 2019, five asylum-seeking parents, on their own behalf and on behalf of their minor children, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the American Immigration Council, sought monetary relief and attorneys fees. The plaintiffs alleged that the United States government caused intentio…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ajaj v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:15-cv-00992 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 11, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2015, a Muslim prisoner filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) and the Warden of Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Security Prison (“ADX”), where the plaintiff was incarcerated. Represented by the Civil Rights Clinic of the University of Denver-Sturm College of Law, the plaintiff brought his claims under Bivens and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (“RFRA”). He alleged…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.I.I.L. v. Sessions

4:19-cv-00481 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2019

Case Ongoing

On October 3, 2019, noncitizen children and their parents filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, challenging the Trump Administration's separation of asylum seeker families. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU Immigrant Rights Project, sued various personnel from five federal departments: the Department of Justice (DOJ), the White House, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and the Office …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mancha v. ICE

1:06-cv-02650 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2006

Closed Date: July 31, 2009

On November 1, 2006, private counsel and attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class-action civil rights suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, challenging a series of raids conducted by federal immigration authorities in Southeast Georgia over the course of at least two weeks in September 2006. Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, under the guise of locating suspected undocumented workers who had been e…