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Lozano v. City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania

3:06-cv-01586 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2016

In this lawsuit, filed on August 15, 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, two property owners challenged the Hazleton, Pennsylvania ordinance penalizing those who rent to or hire undocumented immigrants. This was the first city ordinance of its kind, and the lawsuit received a great deal of press. The ordinance, titled "Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance" (Immigration Ordinance), immediately served as a model for several dozen other cities' similar enac…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02371 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2006

Closed Date: Sept. 2, 2010

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas, to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892 (subsequently repealed and reenacted in slightly altered form as Ordinance 2903). See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch and Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch. This case and two others filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch and Barrientos v. City of F…
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Kaplan v. Chertoff

2:06-cv-05304 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 5, 2011

The plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of some 50,000 aliens, humanitarian refugees, and asylees who had lost or were at risk of losing their Social Security supplemental security income (SSI) benefits as a result of alleged delays in their applications for legal permanent residency status and naturalization. Typical members of the proposed class fled tyrannical oppression and sought sanctuary in the U.S, including Russian Jews w…
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Hernandez v. Balakian

1:06-cv-01383 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2006

Closed Date: May 1, 2008

This was a class action brought in October of 2006 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on behalf of all legal hourly-paid agricultural workers who had been employed by fruit picking companies of Reedley, California owned by defendants. Plaintiff alleged that employees of Fruit Patch, Inc. engaged in a massive scheme to hire undocumented immigrants for the express purpose of depressing employee wages. In furtherance of their scheme, defendants are alleged …
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Ngwanyia v. Ashcroft

0:02-cv-00502 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 4, 2002

Closed Date: 2008

On March 4, 2002, immigrants granted asylum in the United States filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota against the Attorney General of the United States and Immigration and Naturalization Services. Plaintiffs alleged that federal immigration agencies and officials had improperly administered the system and waiting list that determined when asylees could become lawful permanent residents and had failed to provide asylees with proper employment e…
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Padilla v. Ridge

7:03-cv-00126 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 28, 2003

Closed Date: 2008

On May 28, 2003, plaintiffs who had been granted the status of lawful permanent resident during their removal proceedings filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to compel the federal government to provide them with documentation of their permanent resident status in a timely manner. Plaintiffs alleged they applied for their alien registration card ("green card") and temporary proof of their legal permanent resident status in the United States but that the gover…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Louisiana v. Barrientos

06-1726 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: 2006

Closed Date: 2007

This case involved a criminal proceeding in Louisiana state court. The State charged defendant Omar Barrientos with violating La. R.S. 14:100.13, Operating a Vehicle Without Lawful Presence in the United States. The statute provided:"No alien student or nonresident alien shall operate a motor vehicle in the state without documentation demonstrating that the person is lawfully present in the United States." The statute further provided that the arresting law enforcement officer was to seize an…
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National Coalition of Latino Clergy, Inc. v. Henry

4:07-cv-00594 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On October 15, 2007, several religious groups teamed with other individuals and filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, asserting a constitutional challenge to Oklahoma state law - HB 1804 ("Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007"). The law made it a felony crime for a person who, knowingly or in reckless disregard of an alien's status, transported, harbored or concealed any undocumented immigrant.Plaint…
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Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights v. Deal

1:11-cv-01804 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 2, 2011

Closed Date: 2013

On June 2, 2011, Plaintiffs filed a class action against the Governor of Georgia and other state officials under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Plaintiffs are nonprofit organizations, business associations, and individuals. Plaintiffs challenged Georgia's comprehensive immigration law, House Bill 87 ("HB87"). The organizational Plaintiffs claimed that HB87 would cause them to divert resources from their traditional m…
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Murillo v. Servicios Agricolas Mex, Inc.

2:07-cv-02581 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2007

Closed Date: 2015

On December 19, 2007, attorneys with Community Legal Services of Arizona and Farmworker Justice filed this suit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on behalf of American farmworkers who had been replaced by foreign workers during 2006-2007 and previous citrus harvesting seasons. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants, an Arizona grower and farm labor contractor, violated 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act ("AWPA"), 29 U.S.C.…