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NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

1:08-mc-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

Case Ongoing

After the U.S. opened a military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The detainees alleged that the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, and high-ranking army officials failed to provide evidence that the detainees were enemy combatants, and also failed to advance any justification for the arrest, in…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Seth v. District of Columbia

1:18-cv-01034 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 1, 2018

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2018, a D.C. resident with intellectual disabilities civilly committed in a North Carolina federal prison filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiff sued the District of Columbia, the D.C. Department of Disability Services (DDS), and the director of DDS in his official capacity. The complaint alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and D.C. laws, including the D.C. Human Rights Act (DCHRA) and the Citizens with Intell…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Meshal v. Higgenbotham

1:09-cv-02178 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2009

Closed Date: 2017

On November 10, 2009, a Muslim American citizen who was detained and tortured while traveling abroad filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under Bivens and the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, against several supervising agents and two unknown agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The plaintiff, represented by the ACLU and a human rights clinic at the Yale Law School, asked the court for compensatory damages, punitive damages, a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mendoza-Martinez v. Mackey [Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez]

47-cr-02771 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: 1953

Closed Date: 1963

The information contained within this case summary was derived from published opinions of the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. This case summary also cites information from court filings submitted by counsel for the plaintiffs and the defendants. The plaintiff in this action was born in the United States in 1922, possessing both American and Mexican citizenship. In 1942, he left the United States for Mexico to avoi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Dhiab v. Obama

1:05-cv-01457 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 22, 2005

Closed Date: 2017

On July 22, 2005, a detainee at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, by his next friend, filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by attorneys from a civil rights firm and the Center for Constitutional Rights, the plaintiff also brought suit under the Alien Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1350; the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651; and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201.The petitioner alleged violations of the Due Proces…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orantes-Hernandez v. Meese

2:82-cv-01107 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 4, 1982

Case Ongoing

In 1982, a group of Salvadoran refugees filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, challenging practices and procedures of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in detaining, processing, and removing those seeking political asylum from El Salvador. The plaintiffs alleged that the INS (1) used coercive tactics to cause Salvadorans to accept "voluntary departure" to El Salvador; (2) failed to advise them of their right to co…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Nicholson

1:96-cr-00448 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 1996

Closed Date: 1997

On November 5, 1996, the U.S. charged the defendant with espionage, attempted espionage, and conspiracy to commit espionage, all in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 794. The U.S., represented by the U.S. Attorney's Office, filed the case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. On November 18, 1996, the defendant was arrested. The defendant moved for recusal of judge. On February 3, 1997, Judge James C. Cacheris denied the defendant's motion and held that: (1) recusal was not re…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Grassroots Leadership v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

08-16-00334-cv | Texas state appellate court

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2015

Case Ongoing

On September 26, 2015, Grassroots Leadership (an Austin-based nonprofit that opposes private prison companies), 22 detainees (11 mothers and 11 children), and a licensed childcare service provider, filed this suit in state court, in the 353rd Judicial District Court of Travis County, to prevent Texas from licensing two family detention centers, in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained mothers and their children. Their challenge centered on the length and conditions of de…