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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
Abdullah v. INS

1:92-cv-08199 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1992

On November 12, 1992, a group of around 400 Pakistani and Indian immigrants filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the INS' denial of their applications for Special Agricultural Workers ("SAW") status. Plaintiffs claimed that the INS denied their applications for SAW status on illegal grounds: (1) because it relied on proof of employment from documents provided by "blacklisted" employers; (2) it unlawfully classified them by ethnic group (3) pl…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ayuda, Inc. v. Reno

1:88-cv-00625 | U.S. District Court for the District of 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
Catholic Social Services v. Ashcroft

2:86-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1986

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2014

On Nov. 12, 1986, Catholic Social Services filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ("INS") interpretation 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 case were Zambrano v. INS, S-88-455 EJG (E.D.Cal.) and LULAC v. INS; 2:87-cv-04757-WDK-CW (C.D.C…
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
LULAC v. INS

2:87-cv-04757 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 22, 1987

Closed Date: April 25, 2007

This case, Newman v. INS (originally LULAC v. INS) was a companion case to Catholic Social Services v. Reno (IM-CA-11 of this collection). Both cases were filed by attorneys for the Center For Human Rights & Constitutional Law and challenged the INS' interpretation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), which established a one-time only amnesty program through which aliens could apply for lawful temporary resident status. Catholic Social Services v. Reno was filed in Nov…
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
Immigrant Assistance Project of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) v. INS

2:88-cv-00379 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 24, 1988

Closed Date: 2008

On March 24, 1988, individual nonimmigrant aliens and various immigration rights organizations filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging certain INS policies and regulations relating to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Specifically, plaintiffs challenged the interpretation of the requirement that to qualify for legalization under the IRCA the nonimmigrant must have lived continuously and unlawfully in the U.S. since January 1…

Opinion

Immigration Assistance Project of the LA County Federation of Labor v. INS

March 7, 1989

Opinion

Immigrant Assistance Project of the L.A. County Fed'n of Labor v. INS

June 8, 1989

[Ninth Circuit] Opinion [Affirming in Part and Reversing in Part the District Court's Order]

Legalization Assistance Program of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) v. INS

Sept. 18, 1992

[Chambers] Opinion [of Justice O'Connor Staying the District Court's Protective Order Pending Appeal to the Ninth Circuit]

INS v. Legalization Assistance Project of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor

Nov. 26, 1993

[Supreme Court] Order [Granting Certiorari, Vacating and Remanding]

INS v. Legalization Assistance Project of Los Angeles County Federation of Labor

Dec. 6, 1993

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Friends Service Committee v. Thornburgh

2:88-cv-06921 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 1988

Closed Date: 1992

In 1988, the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker charitable and relief organization, filed suit U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the constitutionality of the "employer sanction" provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 8 U.S.C. § 1324a. That provision made it unlawful to employ a person known to be an alien that was not authorized to work in the U.S or to fail to verify whether such employment authorization existed. Defendan…