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Abukar v. Ashcroft

0:01-cv-00242 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2001

Closed Date: 2004

On February 9, 2001, Ayub Haji Abukar ("Abukar") filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus against United States Attorney General John Ashcroft, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. In 1997, the Petitioner was admitted to the United States as a refugee from Somalia. In 1999, Petitioner was charged and convicted of third degree assault for stabbing a man with a knife during a fight. Following his release from jail, the INS took Petitioner in…
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Ali v. Ashcroft

2:02-cv-02304 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 2008

[The following summary is adapted with some additions from the Background section of the District Court's Order of March 30, 2007. See Ali v. Gonzales, 486 F. Supp. 2d 1197, 1199-1202 (W.D. Wash. 2007).]On November 13, 2002, five Somali nationals detained pending execution of a final order of removal to Somalia filed a petition for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington challenging respondent federal government's deportation methods and post-removal-orde…
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Ali v. Cangemi

0:03-cv-03189 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: May 15, 2003

Closed Date: 2005

On May 15, 2003, petitioner Ahmed Hassan Ali, a native of Somalia, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, alleging that his extended detention awaiting deportation was unlawful. On June 1, 2004, the district court (Judge Donovan W. Frank) granted the writ. Judge Frank adopted Magistrate Judge Mayeron's Report and Recommendation, dated March 30, 2004, which found that because of the injunction put in place …
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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…
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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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Barahona-Gomez v. Reno

4:97-cv-00895 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 1997

Closed Date: 2006

On March 14, 1997, the National Immigration Law Center, the Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area and cooperating counsel filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging directives of Executive Office for Immigration Review officials which implemented the Section 309(c) (5) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA). When the IIRIRA took effect on April 1, 1997, it made ali…
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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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Cermeno-Cerna v. Farrell

68-cv-00403 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 12, 1968

Closed Date: 1968

On March 12, 1968, permanent resident aliens who had pending deportation proceedings filed a complaint against the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging immigration regulation 8 C.F.R. 211.1. Plaintiffs were all holders of immigration form I-151 ("green cards") who lived in the U.S. and worked for Giumarra Vineyards. Plaintiffs temporarily left the U.S. and attempted to return to work for Giumarra. When they atte…
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Contreras De Avila v. Bell

1:78-01166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 29, 1978

In 1978, a group of Mexican visa applicants filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking recapture of visas allegedly incorrectly charged to the yearly quota for Mexico in fiscal year 1977. On May 18, 1979 the District Court (Judge Marshall) ruled that the State Department had incorrectly interpreted the 1976 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act and that 9,565 additional visas should be awarded to Mexican immigrants. Follow…
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Manwani v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

3:88-00041 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 1988

Closed Date: April 23, 1990

In 1988, Katherina Manwani, a native-born citizen of the U.S., and her husband Prakash Manwani, a citizen of India, filed suit in the U.S. District Court of North Carolina, challenging the constitutionality of section 5(b) of the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986, 8 U.S.C. § 1154(h), which imposed a mandatory two-year foreign residency requirement on all immigrants entering into marriages with U.S. citizens while their deportation proceedings were pending. The Manwanis began dating …