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Arias v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

0:07-cv-01959 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 19, 2007

Closed Date: Feb. 2, 2010

On April 19, 2007, a group of Latino plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, challenging a series of raids by immigration agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division ("ICE") and local police officials in and around Willmar, Minnesota, between April 10 - 14, 2007. The plaintiffs sued ICE, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), and various ICE and DHS officials and officers in their official capacity (“United States defendant…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
La Duke v. Nelson

2:77-cv-00356 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1977

On or about December 6, 1977, a class of farm laborers residing in the Spokane Sector (comprised of the Eastern District of Washington, a portion of Northern Idaho, and a portion of Western Montana) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, challenging raids of their farm labor dwellings units by Border Patrol agents and federal immigration officials. Plaintiffs claimed that federal officers conducted warrantless searches, seizures and interrogations of…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Blackie's House of Beef v. Castillo

1:78-02338 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1978

Closed Date: 1982

In 1978, the owner of Blackie's House of Beef, Inc., brought two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Immigration and Naturalization Service officials, challenging immigration raids at the restaurant. Blackie's was a restaurant and lounge Washington, D.C. In the first suit, Blackie's challenged the INS' use of a search warrant to search the place on March 30, 1978, and to remove Blackie's employees who were alleged undocumented aliens. Blackie's c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Intl. Molders' v. INS

5:82-cv-01896 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 29, 1982

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 1991

In 1982, a labor union, businesses, and individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. They challenged immigration raids which occurred during the week of April 16, 1982, as part of "Project Jobs," a nation-wide enforcement action conducted by the INS and Border Patrol agents. The plaintiffs alleged that the workplace raids, which the government called "surveys" or "control operations," resulted in U.S. citizens and lawful resident al…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aguilar v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:07-cv-10471 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 8, 2007

Closed Date: Feb. 12, 2008

On March 8, 2007, attorneys with the Greater Boston Legal Services, the American Civil Liberties Union, and private firms filed a habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, challenging the seizure, detention, and transportation of undocumented workers that were swept up in a massive workplace raid conducted on March 6, 2007, by agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division (ICE) of the Department of Homeland Security. The raid, which …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mancha v. ICE

1:06-cv-02650 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2006

Closed Date: July 31, 2009

On November 1, 2006, private counsel and attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class-action civil rights suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, challenging a series of raids conducted by federal immigration authorities in Southeast Georgia over the course of at least two weeks in September 2006. Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, under the guise of locating suspected undocumented workers who had been e…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Yarrito v. Meyers

1:06-cv-02494 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2007

This lawsuit is one of several cases arising from immigration raids conducted by federal authorities at Swift meat packing plants throughout the country on December 12, 2006. [See Valenzuela v. Swift Beef Company, Inc., IM-TX-19; Swift & Company v. ICE, IM-TX-20; and United Food and Commercial Workers Int'l Union v. Chertoff, IM-TX-23]. During the operation, federal immigration authorities raided six Swift plants and swept up about twelve thousand meatpacking workers, thousands of which were …
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Swift & Company v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:06-cv-00314 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2006

This lawsuit is one of several cases concerning immigration raids conducted by federal authorities at Swift meat packing plants throughout the country. [See Valenzuela v. Swift Beef Company, Inc. IM-TX-19; United Food and Commercial Workers Int'l Union v. Chertoff, IM-TX-23; Yarrito v. Meyers, IM-CO-8].Beginning in 2006, federal immigration officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security commenced an investigation into the hiring pra…

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Swift & Company v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security

Nov. 28, 2006

Appendix to Defendants' Memorandum Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Swift & Company v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 4, 2006

Defendants' Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Swift & Company v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 4, 2006

Order

Swift & Company v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 7, 2006

Stipulation of Dismissal

Swift & Company v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 14, 2006

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Aguilar v. ICE

1:07-cv-08224 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2007

On September 20, 2007 several Latino families and individuals, represented by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and private counsel, filed a class action suit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging raids conducted as part of a program called "Operation Return to Sender." Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents unlawfully raided the home…

Class Action Complaint

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division

Sept. 20, 2007

Latinos Challenge Constitutionality of Home Raids Conducted by ICE

Aguilar v. ICE

Sept. 20, 2007

Fourth Amended Class Action Complaint

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 21, 2009

Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Dismiss the Complaint Against Defendants Michael Chertoff, Julie Myers, John Torres, and Marcy Forman

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

March 29, 2010

Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants' Chertoff, Myers, Torres, and Forman's Motion to Dismiss

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

May 19, 2010

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Robinson v. Board of County Commissioners, Otero County, New Mexico

1:07-cv-01044 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2007

Closed Date: 2008

On October 17, 2007, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico filed a civil rights suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of five Latino families in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. Plaintiffs alleged that the Sheriff's Department sanctioned an operation to locate, detain and arrest Latinos in an effort to apprehend undocumented immigrants. As part of the operation, plaintiffs alleg…