Court Cases

As the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading aggressively across the United States in Spring 2020, it hit jails, prisons, and detention centers with particular virulence. The Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC), which detains both individuals held by the U.S. Marshals’ Service (USMS) facing federal...

The COVID-19 pandemic poses an acute threat to the health and safety of people in congregate settings—places where large groups of people live, eat, and share common spaces in close proximity to one another. The populations at U.S. ICE detention centers across the country are no exception.

The five journalists filed a federal lawsuit alleging that CBP’s questioning aimed at uncovering their sources of information and their observations as journalists was unconstitutional.

Pursuant to DHS’s former so-called Migrant Protection Protocols tens of thousands of asylum-seeking individuals and families were forced to wait in precarious conditions in Mexican border cities while their asylum cases were adjudicated. On November 5, 2019, we filed a class action to challenge...

Due Process Impacts of Family Separation

Challenge to S.D. County’s “P100” Welfare Policy

Under California law, it is illegal for businesses open to the public to discriminate against any person based on their sex, gender identity, or gender expression. Though the law is clear, our client, Christynne Wood, was not permitted to utilize the women’s locker room/bathroom at Crunch Fitness...

Fearing death in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ms. L. escaped with her seven-year-old daughter, eventually arriving at the San Ysidro port of entry in November 2017 to request asylum...

The Right of Prompt Presentment for People in Immigration Custody