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Murillo v. Musegades

3:92-00319 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 1992

In 1992, attorneys for the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project in Texas filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas to enjoin the practice of U.S. Border Patrol agents stopping, detaining, and questioning Hispanic individuals within the Bowie High School District, El Paso, Texas. Plaintiffs maintained that the conduct of the Border Patrol agents was unlawful and in violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Pla…
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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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Cervantez v. Whitfield

2:79-cv-00206 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1979

On December 12, 1979, Pedro Cervantez and Juan Lozano filed suit in the United States District Court of the Northern District of Texas, challenging their arrest, detention and interrogation for suspected violations of immigration law by local and state law enforcement officers and federal border patrol agents. Defendants included the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"), the Texas Department of Public Safety ("DPS"), and the Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Department and individuals offi…
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Durgin v. De La Vina

4:95-cv-00029 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1995

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 1999

On January 17, 1995 two motorists who had been stopped by U. S. Border Patrol agents patrolling the Mexican border filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, challenging the constitutionality of the stops. Plaintiffs alleged that the Border Patrol agents engaged in a pattern or practice of routinely stopping motorists without reasonable suspicion. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as class certification. Plaintiffs amen…
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Gete v. INS

2:94-cv-00881 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: June 10, 1994

Closed Date: 2000

On June 10, 1994, a group of plaintiffs whose vehicles had been seized and forfeited by the INS for alleged violations of federal immigration law, after they entered the U.S. from Canada without permission, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington to challenge the seizure and forfeiture proceedings and obtain return of their vehicles.On an March 21, 1995, the District Court for (Judge Carolyn R. Dimmick) denied class certification a…
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Gonzales v. Rivkind

8:83-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1983

Closed Date: 1992

On January 10, 1983 a group of individuals whose vehicles had been seized by federal agents pursuant to the INS Miami Sector Seizure Program because they had been used to transport undocumented aliens filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to challenge the forfeiture procedures of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §1324. Plaintiff maintained that the seizures ran afoul of due process and equal protection in that vehicle owners were…
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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…
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Lopez v. Ezell

3:88-cv-01825 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 1988

Closed Date: 1992

On November 30, 1988, alien workers who had applied for special status under the Special Agricultural Workers (SAW) legalization program created by the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1160 et seq., filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to enjoin federal border agents from detaining and questioning them with regard to their underlying applications. Plaintiffs were represented by attorneys with the California Rural Legal Assistance, the ACLU F…
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Ramirez v. Webb

4:81-cv-00344 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 1981

Closed Date: 1989

On September 4, 1981, a group of over 30 Hispanic-appearing citizens filed a class action suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, alleging that officials of Immigration and Naturalization Service and United States Border Patrol engaged in unconstitutional searches, seizures, raids, stops, and interrogations in western Michigan. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and sought injunc…
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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…