Support Article

How To Search Guide
Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:

Support Article

How To Search Guide
18 cases, 129,048 documents
Ordered by
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Bustos v. Mitchell

1:69-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: 1969

Closed Date: 1975

In the early 1970s, several farmworkers and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, a collective-bargaining agent, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's practice of permitting Mexican aliens to commute either daily or seasonally from their homes in Mexico to farm jobs in the U.S. under the "special immigrant"' classification of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Plaintiffs' complaint sough…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Allende v. Shultz

1:83-03984 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 1983

Closed Date: 1989

In December 1983, Hortensia de Allende, the widow of the former Chilean President, and U.S. citizens who had extended speaking invitations to her filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to contest her denial of nonimmigrant tourist visa in response to speaking invitations from various scholastic and community groups. The State Department denied the visa under Section 212(a)(27) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(27) (1982…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen v. Meese

3:85-01253 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 1985

On January 29, 1985, the Bricklayers' union and a local affiliate brought suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging Immigration and Naturalization Service internal agency guidelines which permitted issuance of B-1 "temporary visitor for business" visas to foreign laborers coming to United States temporarily to work. Plaintiffs alleged that the issuance of visas to foreign laborers under the authority of INS Operations Instruction 214.2(b)(5),…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Baker v. City of New York

1:83-cv-03741 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 1983

In 1988, three separate lawsuits were filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Secretary of State's refusal to issue nonimmigrant tourist visas to aliens that the plaintiffs had invited to come to the U.S. for public speaking engagements. The State Department denied the visas under Section 212(a)(27) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(27) (1982), which permitted exclusion of aliens who seek to enter U.S. to engage in activi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Yassini v. Crosland

3:80-cv-00074 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1980

Closed Date: 1980

Plaintiffs, Iranian nationals, brought suit in late 1979 or early 1980 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging directive of the Acting Commissioner of the INS to revoke deferred departure dates the INS had previously granted to Iranian nationals. The lawsuit came in the wake of the Iranian hostage crisis which began on November 4, 1979, when Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took U.S. citizens hostage. In response, the U.S. govern…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Universal Muslim Association of America v. Trump

1:17-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 24, 2017

Closed Date: April 1, 2021

On March 24, 2017, the Universal Muslim Association of America (UMAA) and two individual Yemenis filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a challenge to President Trump’s March 6, 2017, Executive Order barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The March 6 order was the second of four 2017 executive orders issued by President Trump that placed restrictions on peopl…

Notice of Designation of Related Civil Cases Pending in This or Any Other United States Court

Universal Muslim Association of America v. Trump

March 24, 2017

Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction

Universal Muslim Association of America v. Trump

March 27, 2017

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Universal Muslim Association of America v. Trump

March 27, 2017

Defendants' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Universal Muslim Association of America v. Trump

April 10, 2017

Declaration of David J. Weiner in Support of Plaintiffs' Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction

Universal Muslim Association of America v. Trump

April 11, 2017

see 21 additional documents
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Emami v. Nielsen

3:18-cv-01587 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 13, 2018

This is one of many legal challenges to the series of Trump's executive orders (EOs) known collectively as the "Travel Ban" or "Muslim Ban." This suit in particular challenged the waiver system that accompanied the ban, which was purportedly instated to prevent the EOs from arbitrarily denying people entry into the country. Twenty six individuals who had been denied a travel visa, or whose relatives had been denied a travel visa as a result of the EOs, filed this putative class action lawsuit i…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Guilford College v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-00891 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

On August 9, 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) changed its longstanding policy for determining unlawful presence of students and exchange visitors. Under the old policy, students and exchange visitors were deemed unlawfully present only after an official determination. However, the new policy deemed students as unlawfully present immediately after any unauthorized activity. The unauthorized activity could be as minor as a failure to report a change of address.…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Trump

1:25-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025 and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amend…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
O. Doe v. Trump

1:25-cv-10135 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending