Magistrate Judge Daniel S. Roberts ordered a pro se prisoner plaintiff to show cause why his § 1983 suit over a Kern Valley State Prison incident should not be transferred to the Eastern District of California, where the prison and all defendants are located.
Judge Sunshine Sykes dismissed with prejudice a pro se mother’s § 1983 suit against an Orange County family-court judge, prosecutors, and the County over child-custody proceedings, citing judicial and prosecutorial immunity, Younger abstention, Rooker-Feldman, Eleventh Amendment, and failure t
Eastern District of California rejects the federal government’s argument that the entry fiction doctrine and the older Barrera-Echavarria decision foreclose due process protections for noncitizens paroled into the country, ordering immediate release.
Eastern District of California issues a temporary restraining order requiring ICE to immediately release an Eritrean asylum-seeker re-detained at a routine check-in, holding the detention violated both the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
Judge Pitts denies in large part Santa Clara County’s motion to dismiss a hospital sterile-processing educator’s First Amendment and California whistleblower claims, but trims away time-barred individual defendants and a stale FEHA retaliation theory.
Judge Pitts dismisses all twenty causes of action brought by a Marina dentist-turned-landlord who claimed the city escalated property-code enforcement against him after he filed Public Records Act requests, finding pleading deficiencies on Monell, First Amendment, equal protection, takings, excessiv
The court ordered the immediate release of a Honduran national who had been on an immigration Order of Supervision since 1999 and detained at his routine annual check-in without notice of revocation or the regulatory interview, ruling that ICE’s failure to follow its own procedures violated du
Eastern District of California grants preliminary injunction ordering immediate release of an asylum-seeker re-detained by ICE without a bond hearing, holding that the Due Process Clause required a pre-deprivation hearing.
Case Frank Dorsey and Ghassan Salah v. Attorney General of Canada Court Supreme Court of Canada (Canada) Date Decided November
Case Canadian Council for Refugees, Amnesty International, Canadian Council of Churches et al. v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and