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F.V. v. Barron

1:17-cv-00170 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about Idaho's laws that have created barriers for transgender people to change the sex on their birth certificates in order to reflect their gender identities.
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
In re: Niz-Chavez

05-00967 | No Court

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case involved eligibility for “cancellation of removal,” a type of discretionary immigration relief available in removal proceedings that requires noncitizens to demonstrate that they have accrued a specific period of continuous residence or continuous physical presence in the United States.
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guzzo v. Mead

2:14-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Case Ongoing

On October 7, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C § 1983 against the State of Wyoming. The four couples live in Wyoming, two seek to get married in the state and the others seek to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions, legally recognized in the state. Wyoming Equality is a non-profit organization that works on behalf of LGBT causes in the state. The plaintiffs asked the …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Franco-Gonzalez v. Holder

2:10-cv-02211 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2010

Case Ongoing

The ACLU filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus and class action complaint on March 26, 2010, on behalf of several named plaintiffs with serious mental disorders or disabilities who had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and (like all detainees) denied provision of legal counsel. The plaintiffs filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Many of the documents filed in this case are under seal or otherwise unavailable to t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gonzalez v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:13-cv-04416 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 19, 2013

Case Ongoing

On June 19, 2013, a detained plaintiff filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, as well as private counsel, plaintiff sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The plaintiff asked the court for declaratory and injunctive remedies and habeas corpus relief. Specifically, he alleged that ICE's practice of issuing i…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
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Ernesto Torres v. United States Department of Homeland Security

5:18-cv-02604 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2020

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) The ACLU filed this lawsuit to challenge policies in Southern California Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers that make it nearly impossible for many detainees to contact and consult with attorneys.
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Southern Poverty Law Center v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:18-cv-00760 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 4, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: On May 7, the plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order in response to COVID-19, directing the defendants to remove access barriers and ameliorate dangerously punitive conditions at the detention facilities at issue, such as providing detainees with access to free and private phone calls. They claimed that the defendants had restricted access to legal visitations due to COVID-19, but failed to accommodate remote communications. The court granted in part the temporary res…
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Castanon Nava v. Department of Homeland Security

1:18-cv-03757 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 29, 2018

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) Five noncitizens and two nongovernmental organizations filed a putative class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Plaintiffs alleged defendant was conducting pretextual vehicle stops rather than having reasonable articulable suspicion in apprehending undocumented noncitizens in the Chicago area.
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. v. Bentley

2:13-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 11, 2013

Closed Date: March 25, 2016

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In June 2013, the ACLU, the ACLU of Alabama, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Planned Parenthood Southeast, filed this lawsuit challenging a state law that placed restrictions on abortion providers and would force most of the state’s clinics to stop providing abortions. On March 26, 2016, the court permanently struck down this law for all clinics in the state.
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fang v. Saldana

2:17-cv-02092 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case brought by noncitizen students facing immigration enforcement about the fallout from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting operation. The noncitizens had entered the U.S. on student visas, and had enrolled in the University of Northern New Jersey (UNNJ) to maintain their student visa status after graduating from other U.S. universities and beginning work. As it turned out, in April 2016 ICE revealed that the UNNJ was a fake university it created to investigate and pros…