J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half the time and not overnight, and manifested less distress during...
Miriam Jordan, NYT, Feb. 27, 2023 "Nearly 100 immigrants who were rounded up during a 2018 raid at a meat processing plant in Tennessee have reached a $1.17 million settlement against the U.S. government and federal agents, who they said used racial profiling...
Kong v. USA "Bunthoeun Kong claims that he was improperly arrested and detained by federal immigration officers for the purpose of repatriating him to Cambodia. He now seeks damages from the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"...
SangYeob Kim, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, writes: "ACLU-NH is happy to share our victory in the wrongful deportation FTCA case from D. Mass. ICE deported our client during his petition for review before the First Circuit...
NWIRP, Feb. 14, 2020 "Mohanad Elshieky, a professional comedian and refugee from Libya, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington today against the United States after Border Patrol officers in Spokane, WA, pulled him...
American Immigration Council, Feb. 11, 2019 "The American Immigration Council filed administrative claims for monetary damages on behalf of six asylum-seeking mothers and their children for the trauma they suffered when torn apart under the Trump Administration...
"Americans for Immigrants Justice (AI Justice) and Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli & Pratt, P.A., filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court against Customs & Border Protection (CBP) for its abuse and unlawful treatment of Alba, a twenty-eight year old...
"Lu suffered loss of enjoyment of life, grief, anxiety, humiliation, emotional distress and has signs of PTSD and physically suffered weight loss, insomnia, and "avoidance of traumatic reminders" and dark circles under her eyes. (See Findings of...
David Isaacson, Aug. 15, 2017 - "In its July 31, 2017, opinion in Watson v. United States , a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, over the dissent of Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann, declared untimely the claim of false imprisonment...
"Plaintiff has a basis for contending that, for lack of an attorney, and because of the negligent failure of the United States to protect him when he rightly claimed United States citizenship, he, a young citizen, son of a citizen, was unjustly incarcerated...