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griffin-jones v city of sd
Jan 7, 2021

Griffin-Jones v. City of San Diego

Police Seizure of Protesters’ Cell Phones

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Alvarez v larose
Apr 25, 2020

Alvarez v. LaRose

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),...

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rodriguez v a
Apr 21, 2020

Rodriguez Alcantara v. Archambeault

Immigrants' Rights

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...

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Nov 20, 2019

Guan et al. v. Wolf et al.

Border

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.

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Doe v Wolf
Nov 5, 2019

Doe v. Wolf

Border

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...

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mr u v garland
Nov 2, 2018

Mr. U. v. Garland

Due Process Impacts of Family Separation

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