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Tang v. United States

1:23-cv-09885 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2023

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On November 8, 2023, plaintiffs filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York to recover biometric fees that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) charges millions of immigrants in the U.S>

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Da Silva v. Hyde

1:25-cv-11585 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 1, 2025

Closed Date: June 12, 2025

This is a case about an 18-year-old Brazilian national detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts. The petitioner, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, was detained by ICE while on his way to volleyball practice, following the arrest of his father in a separate ICE operation. Da Silva, who had no criminal history and had been residing with his family in Massachusetts, was taken into custody without advance notice and held in immigration detention. He was detained without a t…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Dixon v. City of St. Louis

4:19-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2021

On January 28, 2019, several arrestees from St. Louis filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. None of the four named plaintiffs could afford to pay their monetary release conditions, which ranged from $10,000 to $30,000, and were thus incarcerated at one of the City’s two detention centers without access to showers or medical care and forced to endure allegedly unconscionable conditions, including extreme heat and cold, rat and cockroach …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hernandez v. Houston

4:16-cv-03577 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2024

This is a case about Houston police arresting individuals without warrants and detaining them without probable cause. On December 5, 2016, two plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated sued the City of Houston under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Represented by private counsel and th…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Heredia Mons v. McAleenan

1:19-cv-01593 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 30, 2019

On May 30, 2019, asylum seekers detained under the jurisdiction of the New Orleans ICE Field Office filed this class action lawsuit under the Administrative Procedure Act and 28 U.S.C.§§ 1361 and 1651 against the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); the Acting Director of ICE; the Acting Executive Associate Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations; and the Acting Director of the New Orleans ICE Field Office. Represented by the ACLU of Louisiana and Southern P…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Dismissed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. v. Executive Office for Immigration Review

1:20-cv-03812 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2020

This case challenged a Department of Justice (DOJ) rule, issued under the first Trump administration, that set a new fee schedule for removal proceedings. 85 Fed. Reg. 82,750. On December 23, 2020, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), along with several other immigration service organizations, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under Judge Amit P. Mehta. The Plaintiffs sued the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) - a sub-agency o…

Administrative Stay Granted

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Patton v. Fitzhugh

3:23-cv-00637 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 22, 2023

[This summary is temporary while we research the case further.] This case is a challenge to a Tennessee state law that requires pre-trial detainees to prove in a hearing before a state court that any bail funds equal to or exceeding $75,000 were not derived from criminal activities. On June 22, 2023, the plaintiff filed a putative class action, alleging that the state law violated his substantive and procedural due process rights and seeking injunctive and declaratory relief. 
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds & Insurance Agency, Inc. v. United States Department of Homeland Security

4:20-cv-08897 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

On December 14, 2020, a group of agents and surety companies who post immigration bonds filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, the suit challenged a Final Rule which mandated exhaustion of administrative remedies by a Treasury-approved surety or its agent when challenging the breach of an immigration bond. In fil…

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds and Insurance Agency v. United States Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 15, 2020

Order Granting Motion to Dismiss

Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds & Insurance Agency, Inc. v. United States Department of Homeland Security

July 13, 2021

First Amended Complaint

Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds & Insurance Agency, Inc. v. United States Department of Homeland Security

Aug. 3, 2021

Order Denying Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss the First Amended Complaint

Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds & Insurance Agency, Inc. v. United States Department of Homeland Security

Oct. 19, 2021

Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion For Summary Judgment

Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds & Insurance Agency, Inc. v. United States Department of Homeland Security

Aug. 10, 2022

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Case Is Ongoing

Reversed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

1:19-cv-03283 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2019

On October 31, 2019, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (“NIRP”) filed a complaint against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, the complaint took issue with USCIS’s decision to amend and heighten the standards by which individuals can qualify for waivers of fees associated with applying for immigration benefits. In adopting these changes to the regulation, the complaint al…

Administrative Stay Granted

Appeal Dismissed