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PRISON CONDITIONS
Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.

1:08-cv-00827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2008

This case involves allegations of abuse and torture suffered by four Iraqi men who were detained at Abu Ghraib in 2003. On June 30, 2008, an Iraqi civilian who was imprisoned and allegedly tortured in an Iraq prison filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against two defense contractors—CACI (and its wholly owned subsidiary, collectively known as “CACI Defendants”) and L-3—and a named individual who allegedly worked for CACI as a screener and interro…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Iverson v. Trump

1:25-cv-01353 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

Closed Date: May 13, 2025

This case challenged an Executive Order signed by President Trump that imposed criminal and civil penalties on any U.S. person who provided services to or for the benefit of a sanctioned person at the International Criminal Court. On May 5, 2025, a U.S. citizen prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Se…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

1:21-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2023

This is a case about immigration policy that restricted refugee and asylum entry into the United States on account of health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic. On January 12, 2021, families of asylum- and refugee-seekers, who were detained by the Department of Homeland Security, sued the U.S. federal government for humanitarian protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With the spread of coronavirus, on March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Kelly

3:17-cv-02366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

This case concerns the legality of the government’s treatment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. On July 12, 2017, a group of Honduran and Mexican asylum seekers and Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization which supports indigent deportees, refugees, and migrants, filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The pseudonymous plaintiffs fled gang-related and/or severe domestic violence and presented themselves at a Port of Entry (PO…
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

This case concerns a habeas petition and the due process rights of detained Iraqi Americans facing deportation to Iraq. Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition were Iraqi nationals, including many Chaldean Christians, who had resided in the United States for many years. They had 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. After the Trump Administration negotiated with Iraq in early 201…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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
O.A. v. Trump

1:18-cv-02718 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2023

On November 20, 2018, a group of asylum seekers challenged the federal government’s latest asylum policy, which prohibited people who enter the United States along the southern border somewhere other than a designated port of entry from obtaining asylum. Specifically, the plaintiffs challenged an interim final rule promulgated on November 9, 2018, declaring all those subject to a presidential proclamation concerning the southern border ineligible for asylum. The plaintiffs also challenged the "…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

1:08-mc-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

After the U.S. opened a military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The detainees alleged that the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, and high-ranking army officials failed to provide evidence that the detainees were enemy combatants, and also failed to advance any justification for the arrest, in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Innovation Law Lab v. Nielsen

3:19-cv-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2019

On February 14, 2019, a group of asylum seekers from Central America and several legal organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, sought declaratory and injunctiv…
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…