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Puente Arizona v. Arpaio

2:14-cv-01356 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 18, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2018

On June 18, 2014, Puente Arizona, an immigrant advocacy organization, along with two undocumented workers from the state of Arizona and a minister, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the state of Arizona under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Arizona, the immigrant rights clinic of U.C. Irvine Law School, and the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive r…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Proyecto San Pablo v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

4:89-cv-00456 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 1989

Closed Date: 2010

On August 17, 1989, Proyecto San Pablo, an advocacy organization, and a group of aliens filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, alleging that the INS interpreted and implemented provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1255a, in an unlawful manner by denying their applications for legalization on the basis of alleged prior deportations. At issue in the case, was one of two provisions of the IRCA under which un…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Valenzuela v. Swift Beef Company, Inc.

3:06-cv-02322 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2006

Closed Date: June 18, 2009

This lawsuit came on the heels of immigration raids conducted by federal authorities at Swift meat packing plants throughout the country. Shortly after the raids, on December 15, 2006, a group of Swift employees filed a class action lawsuit against their employer, Swift Beef Company, Inc., and related companies, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Plaintiffs' complaint alleged that Swift engaged in a longstanding scheme to hire undocumented immigrants for the expres…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Danka Office Imaging

2:05-cv-01522 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 23, 2005

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 2006

The Phoenix District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Danka Office Imaging Company, Inc in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona in May 2005. The complainant brought a separate suit against the defendants in May 2005. The complaints are unavailable so the allegations are unknown. The cases were consolidated in August 2005 and the EEOC case was designated the lead case. Little litigation activity occurred until the case was voluntarily dismissed in October 20…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Nelson

1:88-06987 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 1988

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 1988

In 1988, two undocumented aliens who had been residing in the U.S. since before January 1, 1982, brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, challenging INS regulations relating to citizenship procedures for the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The Act established a one-time-only legalization program for undocumented aliens who had been living in the country since before January 1, 1982. In order to qualify for the legalization program, aliens had…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Perales v. Thornburgh

1:88-cv-02265 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 1, 1988

Closed Date: 1991

On April 1, 1988, a group of aliens brought a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) administration of an amnesty program for illegal aliens authorized by Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, alleging that the "public charge" exclusion regulations were facially invalid and violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fifth Amendment and the Administrati…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB

91-26630 | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 1991

Closed Date: 2002

In this case, Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that federal immigration law prohibited awarding undocumented immigrant workers back pay under the National Labor Relations Act.This case arose when Hoffman Plastic Compounds fired José Castro and others for union activities in 1989. During a series of administrative proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), it was determined that Castro was an undocumented immigrant who had used fake pape…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Haitian Refugee Center, Inc. v. Nelson

1:88-cv-01066 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 13, 1988

Closed Date: 1991

In 1988, the Haitian Refugee Center, the Migration and Refugee Services of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach, and several individually named alien farmworkers filed a class action in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, alleging that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was conducting the initial application review process of the "Special Agricultural Workers" (SAW) amnesty program in an arbitrary manner, violating the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ayuda, Inc. v. Reno

1:88-cv-00625 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 8, 1988

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 1996

Plaintiffs, who were nonimmigrant aliens and organizations whose primary function was to provide immigration counseling, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the legalization or "amnesty" provisions of Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"). Specifically, plaintiffs complain that government did not take any other evidence into account, such as Social Security Administration records, Internal Revenue Service records to satisfy "unlawfu…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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…