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Santillan v. Mukasey

3:04-cv-02686 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 6, 2004

Closed Date: July 21, 2010

On July 6, 2004, individuals who had been granted the status of lawful permanent resident by the Department of Justice's Executive Office of Immigration Review filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the United States Attorney General, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and its Director, and the San Francisco District Director under 5 U.S.C. § 551…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Immigration Lawyers Association v. Reno

1:97-cv-00597 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 27, 1997

Closed Date: Aug. 20, 1998

In 1998, three lawsuits were filed by immigration assistance organizations and individual aliens against federal immigration agencies and officials in the District Court of the District of Columbia. These suits challenged the summary removal provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations. The Act established a system for expediting the removal of aliens who arrived at the border but were not eligible for admission. The l…
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Angco v. Haig

2:79-cv-04636 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 1979

Closed Date: 1981

In 1979, a group of Philippine permanent visa applicants who were working as registered nurses in the U.S. under temporary visas filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to challenge the way visas were being distributed under Section 202(e) of the 1976 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1152 (e). That section changed the manner in which citizens of a foreign country were admitted to the U.S. as permanent residents. Under the a…
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Zambrano v. INS

2:88-cv-00455 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 12, 1988

Closed Date: 2002

On April 12, 1988, six undocumented aliens filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging regulations issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"), which implemented the legalization provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). This case was one of three "late amnesty cases" filed in the federal courts in California against the INS. The other two cases were Catholic Social Services v. Meese, 2…
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Becker v. Marks

1:72-cv-03436 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 1972

Closed Date: May 14, 1973

In 1973, attorney James Becket, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the INS practice of maintaining a check list ("lookout book") of names of individuals to be stopped by immigration officials if they attempt to gain entry into the United States. Becket claimed that he was stopped twice by immigration officials when attempting to return to the U.S. from Europe beca…
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Catholic Social Services v. Ashcroft

2:86-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1986

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2014

On Nov. 12, 1986, Catholic Social Services filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ("INS") interpretation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"). This case was one of three "late amnesty cases" filed in the federal courts in California against the INS. The other two case were Zambrano v. INS, S-88-455 EJG (E.D.Cal.) and LULAC v. INS; 2:87-cv-04757-WDK-CW (C.D.C…
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LULAC v. INS

2:87-cv-04757 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 22, 1987

Closed Date: April 25, 2007

This case, Newman v. INS (originally LULAC v. INS) was a companion case to Catholic Social Services v. Reno (IM-CA-11 of this collection). Both cases were filed by attorneys for the Center For Human Rights & Constitutional Law and challenged the INS' interpretation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), which established a one-time only amnesty program through which aliens could apply for lawful temporary resident status. Catholic Social Services v. Reno was filed in Nov…
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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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Espindola v. INS

2:92-cv-01871 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1992

Closed Date: 1995

On January 20, 1992, plaintiffs, represented by the National Immigration Law Center, and the ACLU Immigration Rights' Project filed a class lawsuit against the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging the INS' "Operation Green Card," a plan which required permanent residents to pay $70 to renew green cards (Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form I-151) issued before 1978. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and inj…
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Cornejo v. Landon

1:80-cv-02192 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 2, 1980

Closed Date: March 31, 1981

In 1980, Plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in order to challenge delays between the filing of their initial naturalization applications and the scheduling of preliminary investigations and examinations by the INS. Plaintiffs claimed that these delays violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq., the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 551 et seq., and their constitutional rights to due process …