Nwauzor v. The GEO Group, Inc. "In 2017, a class of detainees and Washington State each sued GEO in federal court for violations of Washington’s Minimum Wage Act (“MWA”). The district court consolidated the actions. A jury awarded $17,287...
Law360 (subscription) - "A federal judge said Thursday [Jan. 2, 2025] that Suffolk County, New York, violated state law and the Fourth Amendment by detaining hundreds of immigrants past their release dates at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, Dec. 18, 2024 "Under a legal settlement presented to the court today by ECBAWM and Benno & Associates, P.C., New York City has agreed to pay up to $92.5 million to resolve claims by individuals who...
Envision Freedom Fund, the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Oct. 29, 2024 "A groundbreaking class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, against...
MALDEF, Oct. 16, 2024 "A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a class-action settlement between First Tech Credit Union and recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other immigrants who were denied full consideration for...
USCIS, Sept. 4, 2024 - "This notice is to tell you about a proposed Settlement Agreement of a class action lawsuit, J.O.P. et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al . , Case No. 8:19-cv-01944-SAG, pending in the United States District Court for...
State Department, June 13, 2024 " THIS NOTICE WILL BE UPDATED AS MORE INFORMATION COMES AVAILABLE. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FINAL INSTRUCTIONS NO LATER THAN AUGUST 2, 2024. NOTICE OF CLASS-WIDE RELIEF The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
IMMpact Litigation, Apr. 25, 2024 "IMMpact Litigation, seeking redress for over 100,000 Ukrainian nationals paroled into the United States post-February 2022, today announces a significant advancement in their ongoing class action lawsuit against the United...
NILA, Apr. 24, 2024 "Today, three immigration attorneys and two individuals filed a prospective class action lawsuit in federal court, challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) nationwide practice of failing to timely respond to requests...
ACLU New Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023 "A group of immigrants detained in inhumane conditions at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for certifying a sham inspection in 2022 that allowed...
Matt Adams writes: "This week the district court granted preliminary approval to the proposed settlement submitted by the parties with respect to the Credible Fear Class. This class is focused on challenges to prolonged delays in making credible fear determinations...
DOJ, Oct. 16, 2023 "On Oct. 16, the United States reached a settlement in Ms. L., et al. v. ICE, et al. , a class action litigation filed in 2018 seeking injunctive relief relating to the separation of parents and children at the southwest border. The proposed...
Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic, Sept. 8, 2023 "The U.S. government has reached a class-action settlement to speed up the asylum process for nearly 20,000 Afghans evacuated to the United States two years ago and who have been waiting for months for their...
My friend and mentor Richard S. Fischer has filed this lawsuit to try to recoup the $85 biometrics fees that USCIS stole from his clients.
NILA, NWIRP, Ira Kurzban, Aug. 28, 2023 "On Friday, a federal district court granted nationwide class certification to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applicants seeking to enforce their statutory right to a work permit during the many months that they...