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One Michigan v. Johnson

2:12-cv-15551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 5, 2013

One Michigan, an organization for immigrant youths, and four Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients brought this lawsuit against the Michigan Secretary of State after they were unable to obtain drivers licenses because of their immigration status. The case was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on December 19, 2012, where it was assigned to District Judge Patrick J. Duggan. Represented by the ACLU of Michigan, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Brewer

2:12-cv-02546 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 29, 2012

Closed Date: Dec. 10, 2018

Plaintiffs--young undocumented immigrants residing in Arizona--filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act against the State of Arizona and the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on Nov. 29, 2012. Represented by the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, plaintiffs claimed that the state was invalidly denying them drivers' licenses, despite their eligibility under the f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Texas

1:14-cv-00254 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2017

On Dec. 3, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, fourteen states (South Dakota, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, West Virginia, Kansas, Georgia, Nebraska, Utah, Wisconsin, Montana, Idaho, South Carolina, and Indiana) and four governors (of Mississippi, Maine, North Carolina, and Idaho) sued the U.S. government for violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief. The origina…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arpaio v. Obama

1:14-cv-01966 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2014

Closed Date: 2015

On November 20, 2014, Joe Arpaio, the Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, filed this lawsuit in the D.C. District Court against President Obama, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the U.S. Attorney General. Sheriff Arpaio sued under the Declaratory Judgment Act(28 U.S.C. § 2201) and the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff claimed that two federal programs cons…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Batalla Vidal v. Nielsen

1:16-cv-04756 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2016

On August 25, 2016, a Mexican-born Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient living in New York filed this suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff, represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and 5 U.S.C. § 551, alleging that the revocation of his …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez Medina v. Asher [later U.S. Department of Homeland Security]

2:17-cv-00218 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

On February 13, 2017, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- and believed to be the first DACA recipient detained under the Trump administration -- filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Represented by the organization Public Counsel, and by private attorneys including constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, he sought a writ of habeas c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) v. Alford

1:16-cv-00757 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 9, 2016

Closed Date: March 28, 2019

On March 9, 2016, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) and students within the University System of Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the members of the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia for denying in-state tuition to undocumented students who had received deferred immigration action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. They argued that the students were…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Arizona v. Maricopa County Community College District Board

CV2013-009093 | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: June 25, 2013

Closed Date: Nov. 6, 2018

In 2013, the State of Arizona filed this lawsuit against the Maricopa County Community College District Board. The State of Arizona sought declaratory and injunctive relief, arguing that federal and state law both prohibit granting in-state tuition to students based on state residency when they are not lawfully in the United States, therefore, the defendant could not allow DACA recipients to pay in-state tuition rates.Two DACA recipients who paid in-state tuition intervened. The two students an…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
De Vries v. Regents of the University of California

BC555614 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2014

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2017

On August 26, 2014, Judicial Watch filed this lawsuit against the Regents of the University of California (Board of Regents) on behalf of an individual plaintiff in the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles. Under California law, the plaintiff argued, taxpayers have the right to sue government officials to prevent unlawful expenditures of taxpayer funds and taxpayer-financed resources. The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief enjoining the defendant from provi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Colotl Coyotl v. Kelly

1:17-cv-01670 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 9, 2017

Closed Date: 2018

On May 9, 2017, a Georgia resident filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. In her first amended complaint filed on May 18, 2017, she challenged the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s arbitrary denial of her Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status renewal application, alleging that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The plaintiff sought a declaration that t…