Michael Karlik, Colorado Politics, Aug. 2, 2023 "A federal judge has determined the government was unjustified in its fight to keep a woman locked up in an Aurora immigrant detention center while her deportation case proceeded. U.S. District Court Judge...
Nkenglefac v. Garland "On May 18, 2022, this court granted Giscard Nkenglefac’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA) dismissal of petitioner’s appeal from the immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of his application...
Kirwa v. Department of Defense "The Court will grant the parties’ Joint Motion for Attorneys’ Fees, approve the parties’ Settlement Agreement [Dkt. No. 251-2], and award attorneys’ fees and costs in the amount of $700,000. ... [T]his is substantially lower...
PLAINTIFFS’ MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR FEES, EXPENSES, AND COSTS PURSUANT TO THE EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT [See generally, https://dcfederalcourtmavniclasslitigation.org/ ]
Sakhawati v. Lynch, Oct. 7, 2016 - "Petitioner Noor Jahan Sakhawati has filed an Application for Attorney Fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d). Sakhawati’s counsel, billing at an hourly rate of $190.28, seeks $21,248.37 in...
"Substantial evidence ... did not support USCIS’s underlying decision or its litigation position. As USCIS has been unable to overcome the “strong indication” of unreasonableness that flows from this lack of substantial evidence, see Thangaraja, 428 F.3d...
Michelle N. Mendez, Senior Attorney, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Washington, Immigration Legal Services writes: "Immigration Legal Services of Catholic Charities of Washington is pleased to announce that it received $20,000 in attorney fees, in settlement...
"This is the sixth (and hopefully the final) installment of Petitioner David Eduardo Castañeda's tumultuous voyage through our nation's immigration system. Castañeda began his journey more than twenty years ago, when he arrived in the United States...
Kip Evan Steinberg writes: "In a case I litigated pro bono for five years concerning the government’s failure to provide evidence of my client’s alleged “false testimony” in a naturalization case, the district court has awarded $321,000 in attorneys’ fees...
Kip Evan Steinberg writes: "The federal district court in San Francisco granted $66,764 in fees and costs under EAJA in my contested citizenship case regarding my client Mirsad Hajro. The government had denied Mr. Hajro’s citizenship application claiming...
"[R]etroactively placing plaintiffs in unlawful status impermissibly sanctioned them for behavior that was not deemed unlawful when it occurred, a trap that “is hardly worthy of our great government.” ... The Court cannot find that the government’s position...
Navarro Hernandez v. CBP, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14290, Feb. 7, 2012 : "Plaintiff filed a FOIA request with CBP, seeking information related to the agency's immigration enforcement actions in the city of New Orleans generally, and specifically with respect...