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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Dvortsin v. Noem

5:25-cv-00664 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This is a case about the federal government’s attempt to deport a detained noncitizen mother and her five minor noncitizen children. The mother and children are currently in immigration detention and continue to seek asylum and humanitarian relief. On June 1, 2025, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national residing in Colorado, was charged with throwing Molotov cocktails and using a makeshift flamethrower at a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, injuring fifteen people. Soliman faced federal…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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

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…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Haitian Americans United Inc. v. Trump

1:25-cv-10498 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

This case challenges the Trump administration's efforts to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Venezuelan immigrants, potentially uprooting thousands who fled dangerous conditions in their home countries. TPS is a humanitarian program established in 1990 to offer temporary refuge and work authorization in the U.S. for immigrants fleeing their home countries due to dangers like violence, political upheaval, or natural disasters. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland …

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

June 22, 2017

First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Class Action Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief

Saravia v. Sessions

Aug. 11, 2017

Order Granting the Motion for Preliminary Injunction, the Motion for Provisional Class Certification; Granting in Part and Denying in Part the Federal Defendants' Motion to Dismiss; Granting in Full the Non-Federal Defendants' Motions to Dismiss

Saravia v. Sessions

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting The Motion For Preliminary Injunction; Granting The Motion For Provisional Class Certification; Granting In Part And Denying In Part The Federal Defendants' Motion To Dismiss; Granting In Full The Non–Federal Defendants' Motions To Dismiss

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting in Part Plaintiffs' Emergency Application for Relief

Saravia v. Sessions

Nov. 27, 2017

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:18-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 5, 2018

This is a case about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) policies for detaining immigrants after they turned 18 who had entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors. On March 5, 2018, two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where it was assigned to District Judge Rudolph Contreras. They brought suit on behalf of a class of unaccompanied children who had been placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Ser…
CHILD WELFARE
L.J. v. Massinga

1:84-cv-04409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

This case challenged the actions of twenty-one state and city officials, caseworkers, and supervisors who administered Maryland's federally-funded foster care program in Baltimore City, Maryland. The class action, filed on December 5, 1984, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Baltimore), alleged that the defendants' administration of the foster program subjected the plaintiffs to physical and sexual abuse as well as medical neglect. They sought broad interim and permanent i…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Affirmed

CHILD WELFARE
D.G. v. Henry

4:08-cv-00074 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2008

Closed Date: March 13, 2025

The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) in February 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The complaint alleged violations of the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq., and Oklahoma state …
CHILD WELFARE
Dwayne B. v. Snyder

2:06-cv-13548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2006

A class of children in foster care custody in Michigan, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the state of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 8, 2006. They alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments; federal law including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq.; and state law. The compla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez v. Trump

1:20-cv-01419 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2024

This case involves a dispute about visa processing. Following a March 20, 2020 decision by the State Department to cease most visa services, President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10014 on April 20, suspending the entry of all immigrants into the U.S. for two months, unless they qualified for an exception. Two months later, the entry suspension was extended to December 31, 2020 and expanded to include temporary nonimmigrant visas in Proclamation 10052. As a result, the State Departmen…