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U.S. v. Purvis

1:77-cr-00066 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 27, 1977

Closed Date: 1979

On June 27, 1977, Louis Wallace, an inmate at the Mobile County Jail in Alabama was shot and killed by jail staff during an escape attempt. On June 27, 1977, the United States filed a two-count indictment against jail officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama alleging violations of 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242. The first count was brought against all nine jail officials on grounds that they had conspired to kill an inmate attempting to escape in order to crea…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Stewart v. Cherokee County, GA

1:07-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On January 4, 2007, plaintiffs, the owner and operator of multiple rental units and unnamed tenants, filed suit against Cherokee County, Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to challenge County Ordinance No. 2006-003 which purported to establish penalties for "the harboring of illegal aliens" in the County. The Ordinance was similar to others recently passed by cities seeking to expel undocumented immigrants from their boundaries. Immediately following the f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aguilar-Ayala v. Ruiz

1:88-cv-00012 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 1988

Closed Date: 1988

On January 27, 1988, two detained aliens filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, challenging the federal government's practice of detaining them and other similarly situated aliens as material witnesses for the criminal prosecution of those persons charged with transporting them across the border. Plaintiffs claimed that their continued detention violated their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh

3:85-cv-03255 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 7, 1985

Closed Date: May 24, 1999

On July 7, 1985, religious and refugee service organizations and two individual undocumented aliens brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against various government officials, including the United States Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, challenging prosecutions for harboring undocumented aliens. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants' application of immigration laws violated the First Amendment and equal protection. The plaintiff…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Turkmen v. Ashcroft

1:02-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 17, 2002

Turkmen v. Ashcroft, also known as Ziglar v. Abbasi, is one of two related actions filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by plaintiffs who were investigated and detained for suspected terrorist ties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. It was filed on April 17, 2002 as a class-action lawsuit, but the class was never certified. The case was assigned to Judge John Gleeson. (The related case, Elmaghraby v. Ashcroft (later Ashcroft v. Iqbal), was also assigned to Judge …
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
We Are America/Somos America Coalition of Arizona v. Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

2:06-cv-02816 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2006

Closed Date: 2014

On November 21, 2006, a coalition of immigration rights groups, Arizona state representatives, Arizona taxpayers, and a group of immigrant criminal defendants filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for Arizona, challenging enforcement of the “Maricopa Migrant Conspiracy Policy” by the Maricopa County Sheriff and other County officials and officers. The policy allegedly consisted of arresting and prosecuting non-smuggler aliens for conspiring to transport…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
In the Matter of: Monies Described in Appendix One to the Supporting Affidavit

SW 2006-002213 | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

In an attempt to curtail the smuggling of undocumented immigrants by trafficking organizations (known as "coyotes") from Mexico to Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General had obtained warrants and seized millions of dollars of money that was wire transferred to Mexico. The Attorney General focused on amounts over $500 which were believed to have been sent as payments to Mexican smugglers who have transported people or drugs into Arizona. On September 18, 2006, an investigator working for the Ariz…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State ex rel. Goddard v. Western Union Financial Services, Inc.

SW 2006-002172 | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: 2006

Closed Date: 2010

In an attempt to curtail the smuggling of undocumented immigrants by trafficking organizations (known as "coyotes") from Mexico to Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General obtained warrants and seized millions of dollars of money that had been wire transferred from Arizona to Mexico. As part of the Attorney General's ongoing criminal investigation into human smuggling and his use of sweeping warrants, the State requested Western Union to produce data reflecting any wire transfers made in an amount…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Martinez v. Chertoff

1:07-cv-00722 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On August 31, 2007, two plaintiffs filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio individually and on behalf of over 120 individuals who were arrested and detained several days earlier during an immigration enforcement raid conducted by the local sheriff and federal agents of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement at a chicken processing plant in Fairfield, Ohio. The Emergency Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Writ of Mandamus, Complaint for Declaratory and …