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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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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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Cardoso v. Reno

3:98-cv-01181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 18, 1998

Closed Date: 2000

On May 18, 1998, three aliens from Mexico filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleging that the U.S. Attorney General violated a number of federal immigration statutes. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the Attorney General to "(a) allow them to remain in the United States, (b) issue work authorization and, when a visa is available to them (c) allow them to adjust status in the United States."The government moved t…
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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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Azizi v. Thornburgh

2:87-cv-00957 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 1987

Closed Date: 1990

On December 9, 1987, an alien and his citizen spouse brought suit in the District Court of Connecticut, challenging Section 5 of the Immigration and Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1154 (h) and 1255(e). The challenged section required that undocumented aliens who married U.S. citizens during their deportation proceedings must commit to a two-year separation, during which the undocumented alien must return to his or her country of origin. Plaintiffs asserted that the provision v…
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American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee v. Ashcroft

2:87-cv-02107 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 3, 1987

Closed Date: 1999

On April 3, 1987, eight resident aliens filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claiming that the federal government targeted them for deportation because of their affiliation with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group that the government deemed to be an international terrorist and communist organization. The government had charged all eight plaintiffs under the McCarran Walter Act, which provided for depor…
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Jean-Baptiste v. Reno

1:96-cv-04077 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 1996

Closed Date: 1999

On August 19, 1996, three permanent resident aliens filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, challenging their deportation orders, which were based on their criminal convictions for drug offenses. Plaintiffs claimed that the INS' deportation procedures violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Plaintiffs also claimed that they were not given notice by INS officials or anyone else that engaging in certain types of crimi…
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Garcia-Mir v. Civiletti

5:81-cv-04007 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 1981

Closed Date: 1981

In 1980, a group of Cuban nationals detained in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas after being denied political asylum filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas to challenge the conditions and circumstances of their continued detention. Plaintiffs requested declaratory and injunctive relief and moved for class certification Plaintiffs were subsequently transferred to a federal facility in Georgia. The government moved for dismissal of the case or, in th…