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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
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Haitian Centers Council, Inc. v. McNary

1:92-cv-01258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 18, 1992

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 1994

On March 18, 1992, this action was brought by various organizations and Haitian aliens in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, challenging procedures of the Coast Guard interdiction program with respect to Haitian refugees. Under the program, Haitians that fled their country were apprehended by the Coast Guard and detained on board Coast Guard cutters and at Guantánamo Bay. The INS interviewed the Haitian refugees and those found to have a "credible" fear of pe…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Zitrin v. Georgia Composite Board of State Medical Examiners

2005cv103905 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: July 22, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

Dr. Arthur Zitrin, a New York University psychiatry professor and death penalty abolitionist, filed a formal complaint with the Georgia State Board of Medical Examiners against Dr. Hothur Sanjeeva Rao over Rao's involvement in an execution. In December 2004, the Georgia board dismissed the complaint and denied Zitrin's appeal. Zitrin argued that "[a]ll existing standards internationally and nationally held by professional health societies bars doctors from participating."On July 22, 2005, Zitr…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Medvid by Jeziersky v. New Orleans Police Department

2:85-05065 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 1985

Closed Date: 1985

In 1985, petitioners, as next friends on behalf of Ukrainian seaman Medvid, filed a petition requesting a TRO in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, seeking to prevent the removal of Medvid from the jurisdiction and deliver him to the custody of his attorneys. Medvid, who had been aboard a Russian ship, the SS Marshal Konev, jumped off the ship and swam to shore in New Orleans. He was taken into police custody, where he allegedly stated his intention to remain in the…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hill v. Snyder

2:10-cv-14568 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Nov. 17, 2020

This is a lawsuit challenging mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles in Michigan. On November 17, 2010, juvenile prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the State of Michigan, challenging the state law that prohibited the Michigan Parole Board from considering for parole juveniles who were sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder. The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the America…
NATIONAL SECURITY
ACLU v. Central Intelligence Agency

1:10-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 4, 2016

On January 3, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the government seeking disclosure of documents related to the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) use of predator drones for the purpose of targeted killings of individuals, including a United States citizen. The Departments of Defense, Justice, and State provided some records but the CIA denied the request in a "Glomar" response, which declines either to confirm or deny the existence of …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Buquer v. City of Indianapolis

1:11-cv-00708 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 25, 2011

Closed Date: 2013

On May 25, 2011, three foreign residents of Indiana filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, against the cities of Indianapolis and Franklin and the counties of Marion and Johnson. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Indiana, the national ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, the National Immigration Law Center, and private counsel, filed their suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Latif v. U.S. Department of Justice

3:10-cv-00750 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 30, 2010

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2019

On June 30, 2010, this suit was filed by a group of Americans denied boarding onto international flights into the United States because of their inclusion on the "No Fly List." The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The complaint named as defendants the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Terrorist Screening Center, which created the list. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the plaintiffs alleged violations of t…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta

1:12-cv-01192 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 18, 2012

Closed Date: April 4, 2014

In July 2012, Plaintiffs, representing the estates of their respective children, filed suit in United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the United States and Department of Defense officials in their personal capacities. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, the plaintiffs alleged that the United States directed and authorized missile strikes resulting in citizens' deaths abroad, in violation of the Fifth and Fourth A…