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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Calderon Jimenez v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-10225 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2018

COVID 19 Summary: A member of a class of immigrants and their spouses suing ICE over its removal policies was ordered released on March 25, 2020. On March 24 the plaintiffs filed a motion for immediate release of that class member because he was detained in a facility where an employee tested positive for COVID-19. On April 16, the parties filed a joint status report that altered the terms of release for the class member and the court lifted the stay on the class member's removal by ICE. ICE im…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fraihat v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

5:19-cv-01546 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2019

On August 19, 2019, Al Otro Lado and the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, as well as 15 individuals who are currently being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a total of 8 facilities across 6 states, filed this class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs are represented by the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, Disability Rights Advocates, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and private counsel. The…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coronel v. Decker

1:20-cv-02472 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 20, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 2023

On March 20, 2020, seven persons held in civil immigration detention centers in the New York City area -- who because of serious and chronic medical conditions face a significant risk of severe illness or death if they catch COVID-19 -- filed this habeas petition and complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by the Bronx Defenders and the Legal Aid Society, the plaintiffs sued the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE)…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Committee for Public Counsel Services v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court

SJ-2020-0115 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

On March 24, 2020, the ACLU of Massachusetts, along with the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, filed this emergency petition asking the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to take immediate action to limit the outbreak of COVID-19 in Massachusetts correctional facilities. Specifically, the petitioners asked that the Court exercise its superintendence powers under state law to: 1) reduce the volume of those entering Massachus…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
In the Matter of the Request to Commute or Suspend County Jail Sentences

084230 | New Jersey state supreme court

Filed Date: March 19, 2020

This case involves the release of individuals held in New Jersey jails during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency on March 9, 2020 due to the threat of COVID-19 to public health and safety. On March 19, the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender wrote to the Supreme Court of New Jersey, requesting the Court to consider commuting or suspending the sentences of individuals serving time in county jails as part of their probation or because of…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ortuño v. Jennings

3:20-cv-02064 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

On March 24, 2020, thirteen immigrants detained in California at the Mesa Verde Detention Center and at the Yuba County Jail sued ICE, alleged violations of their Fifth Amendment rights to substantive due process by subjecting them to a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought attorneys’ fees, declaratory judgment that the detention conditions posed an unreasonable risk of contracting illness, and a writ of habeas corpus for their immediate release or, in the alternative, …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Basank v. Decker

1:20-cv-02518 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

On March 24, 2020, ten individuals detained by ICE in county jails in New York filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The petitioners, who each have underlying health conditions and illnesses, sued the Director of the New York Field Office of ICE and the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The petitioners, represented by the Brooklyn Defender Ser…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Savino v. Hodgson

1:20-cv-10617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 27, 2020

On March 27, 2020, a class of civil immigration detainees held in two Massachusetts detention centers (Bristol County House of Corrections and C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center) filed this federal petition and complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Represented by Lawyers for Civil Rights and Yale Law School's Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, the plaintiffs sued the supervisors of their detention center, the acting Director of the Boston…
JAIL CONDITIONS
People ex rel. Stoughton o/b/o Little v. NYS Department of Corrections

260154/2020 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: March 25, 2020

Closed Date: July 23, 2020

On March 25, 2020, 110 individuals held at Rikers Island on non-criminal technical parole violations filed this habeas petition in New York State trial court (which is called the New York Supreme Court). Represented by the Legal Aid Society of New York, petitioners sought immediate release on the grounds that continuing to hold them on parole warrants constitutes deliberate indifference to the risk of serious medical harm in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and state constitutional right t…