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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

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

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

Case Ongoing

After the opening of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for the writ 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 a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Reina Moran v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

5:20-cv-00696 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 4, 2020

Closed Date: March 3, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas petition brought on behalf of three immigrant detainees confined in detention centers in California. The plaintiffs were granted temporary restraining orders and released from detention. Later in 2020, the plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary injunction, however, in March 2021 the plaintiffs orally withdrew the motion and the court closed the case without prejudice.On April 4, 2020, three immigrant detainees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arriaga Reyes v. Decker

2:20-cv-03600 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about five men, aged 33 to 59 with underlying medical conditions, detained in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody who petitioned for immediate release based on their vulnerability to serious COVID-19 infection. On April 2, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, but the case was transferred to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey after the court conclu…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Campbell v. Barnes

20-cv-1141117 | California state trial court

Filed Date: June 2, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action petition brought by a group of medically vulnerable people and people with disabilities detained at the Orange County Jail seeking writs of habeas corpus and mandate, as well as declaratory relief. The individual petitioners sought immediate release or transfer and an order requiring the Orange County Jail to take steps to mitigate the risk of harm from COVID-19. The Superior Court of California, County of Orange, agreed with the petitioners and declared…
JAIL CONDITIONS
People ex rel. Stoughton o/b/o Little v. NYS Department of Corrections

260154/2020 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: March 25, 2020

Closed Date: July 23, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: 106 individuals held at New York City's Rikers Island jail on non-criminal technical parole violations secured their release after alleging that their continued incarceration constituted deliberate indifference to the risk of serious medical harm in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and state constitutional right to due process. On March 25, 2020, 110 individuals held at Rikers Island on non-criminal technical parole violations filed this habeas petition in New York State …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wright v. Anderson

2:20-cv-03704 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This habeas petition was filed on April 6, 2020 by a group of immigration detainees with underlying medical conditions housed in the Essex County Correctional Facility or the Elizabeth Detention Center, seeking release in light of COVID-19. On April 17, the Court granted a temporary restraining order for five of the petitioners and ordered their release. On April 28, the Court severed all petitioners from the case except the first named petitioner. This habeas petition was fil…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Amaya-Cruz v. Adducci

1:20-cv-00789 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 10, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 17, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This habeas action was filed on April 10, 2020 by four medically vulnerable Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Geauga and Seneca County Jails, seeking release from detention in light of COVID-19. On April 13, the plaintiffs filed an amended petition, adding six new similarly situated plaintiffs. In April 2020, the Court granted preliminary relief and ordered the release of three of the original plaintiffs, while it denied relief for the remaining named plaint…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Weatherspoon v. Oldham; Tennessee v. Weatherspoon

2:17-cv-02535 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2018

In this case, a Memphis criminal defendant challenged the constitutionality of Tennessee’s cash bail system. In early of 2017, the defendant and, later, petitioner, was charged with attempted first degree murder. The Tennessee trial court set bail at $200,000, which he could not pay, leading to his incarceration while his criminal case was pending. The defendant was initially represented by the Shelby County Public Defender. He claimed that the trial court set a high bail amount with the goal o…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Morrissey v. Brewer

4:69-20468 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 1969

Closed Date: June 29, 1972

This is an older case about whether due process rights are violated when a parole board revokes someone's parole without a hearing. Two petitions for habeas corpus were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa: Booher v. Lee County, filed on March 11, 1970 (docket number 70-20478); and Morrissey v. Brewer, filed on Sept. 12, 1969 (docket number 69-20468).The petitioners, Morrissey and Booher, were individually convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern Distr…