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B.K. v. Noem

1:25-cv-00419 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with what the noncitizens claim to be dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. In early April 2025, the Trump Administration abruptly terminated thousands of international students’ F-1 visas and records with the Student and Exchange Visitor Information (SEVIS), threatening them with deportat…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Rona v. Trump

1:25-cv-03114 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

Two U.S.-based law professors challenged the lawfulness of President Trump’s February 6, 2025 Executive Order “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court” (EO 14203), in which Trump authorized civil and criminal penalties on any U.S. persons who provided services to or for the benefit of certain sanctioned persons. Trump claimed, in the EO, that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had “without a legitimate basis, asserted jurisdiction over and opened preliminary investigations co…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.O.P. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:19-cv-01944 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 1, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 1, 2019, four unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The plaintiffs, represented by Goodwin Proctor LLP, Kids in Need of Defense, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, and Public Counsel sought declaratory and injunctive relief…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pars Equality Center v. Pompeo

18-cv-07818 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On July 31, 2018, two nonprofit organizations and fifteen individuals filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the Trump Administration's implementation of the waiver provision of the Travel Ban (Presidential Proclamation No. 9645). The Travel Ban indefinitely banned millions of nationals of five Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Pars Equality Center and OneAmerica are immigrant and refugee advocacy o…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ochoa-Castillo v. Christian

4:19-cv-00878 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 11, 2019

Closed Date: March 1, 2021

This case challenged an action by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to deny a 17-year-old applicant’s Form I-360 Petition for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJ). The plaintiff, a minor who fled gang violence in Honduras, petitioned the 313th District Court in Harris County, Texas for a declaratory judgment. On March 23, 2016, the State court found that the plaintiff had been neglected and that it was not in his best interest to return to Honduras. Following the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Goodluck v. Biden

1:21-cv-01530 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 7, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2024

**Note: The Clearinghouse did not have access to the Complaint at the time of this summary. Therefore, some details may be omitted.** This case challenged the government’s suspension, deprioritization, and delay in processing diversity visa applications during Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 (FY 2020 and FY 2021, respectively). Background: Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State Department reduced its processing of diversity visa applications. In April 2020, President Trump issued Pr…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Casa de Maryland v. Trump

8:19-cv-02715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2019

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2023

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public charge…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Knight First Amendment Institute v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:17-cv-07572 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case challenged various government departments' withholding of records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This lawsuit, filed October 4, 2017, sought to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State (DOS) to release certain records under FOIA. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting freedom of speech and press, sought "records concerning the exclusion or removal of individuals fro…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramos v. Nielsen

3:18-cv-01554 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 12, 2018, a group of U.S. children, their non-citizen parents, and other non-citizen adults filed this class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The plaintiffs challenged DHS’ new rule for determining whether or not to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for immigrants from countries facing various crises warranting their nationals to stay in the U.S. rather than be returned home. The plaintiffs argued that the new DHS rule violated thei…