A federal district court granted a habeas petition and temporary restraining order, finding that due process requires a pre-deprivation bond hearing before the government can re-detain a noncitizen previously released on bond or parole, and ordered the petitioner’s immediate release.
The court denied a Guatemalan national’s § 2241 habeas petition challenging his immigration detention, holding that his detention is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a) because he is subject to a final order of removal, and that he failed to show that his roughly two-month detention violated due pr
A federal district court denied habeas relief to a detained asylum seeker, holding that an allegedly unlawful warrantless arrest does not invalidate otherwise lawful continued detention and that a challenge to the bond hearing fails for failure to exhaust administrative remedies before the BIA.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Leandro David Alvarez-Almaguer’s amended habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and ordered Respondents to immediately release him from immigration custody, subject to supervision conditions set by immigration authorities,
The district court granted a Haitian parolee’s unopposed § 2241 petition, ordered his immediate release subject to his preexisting parole conditions, and required an immigration-judge hearing before any re-detention.
A magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California recommended granting a habeas petition and ordering the immediate release of an immigration detainee who was re-detained for over six months without a bond hearing, finding both a statutory violation of the INA and a Fifth Amendment due proces
A magistrate judge recommends granting a habeas petition and ordering a bond hearing for a noncitizen detained seven months under mandatory detention, finding that prolonged detention without an individualized determination of flight risk or dangerousness violates due process, while separately grant
The district court granted Lazaro Aguilon Perez’s habeas petition and ordered his immediate release from immigration custody after the government filed no objections to the magistrate judge’s recommendation.
The court denied without prejudice a Chinese citizen’s habeas petition challenging his ICE detention, holding that the legality of his continued custody—not the circumstances of his warrantless arrest—determines whether release is warranted.
Case Reeve, in the matter of an application by Reeve Court Federal Court of Australia (Australia) Judge Erin Jane Longbottom
Case Director of Public Prosecutions v Zhimin Qian & Anor Court High Court, King’s Bench Division, Administrative Court (United Kingdom)
Case People of the State of Michigan v. Jimmy Lee Fuller Court Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Stephen L. Borrello
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Case Mevaseret Zion Local Council v. Netivei Israel—National Transport Infrastructure Company Ltd. et al. Court Supreme Court of Israel (Israel)
Case Telamim—Workers’ Moshav for Cooperative Settlement Ltd. v. Ministry of Economy/Registrar of Cooperative Societies et al. Court Supreme Court of
Case Anvarg’on Asrorov and Shakhlo Tushpolatov v. Minister of Interior and Ministry of Interior Court Supreme Court of Israel (Israel)
A jury will decide whether a San Francisco officer used excessive force and retaliated against a pro-Palestine protester by striking her hand with a baton.
For the public function test, Plaintiff has not shown how Defendants were ‘endowed by the State with powers or functions governmental in nature, [such that they] bec[a]me agencies or instrumentalities of the State and subject to its constitutional limitations.’ …
The Fourth District required case-specific comparators and reliable, relevant statistics to establish good cause for Racial Justice Act discovery.
The Sixth District Court of Appeal reversed the denial of a father’s section 388 petition and vacated the termination of parental rights because the department failed to exercise reasonable diligence in locating him despite knowing he had pending criminal cases in the same county, and the resu
United States Magistrate Judge Steve Kim denied a second pro se immigration-detainee habeas petition because the immigration judge’s June 2026 detention order superseded the April arrest, the petitioner had received a counsel-assisted bond hearing, his factual and discretionary objections were unrev
Case Israel Bar Association, Israel Patients’ Rights Association, and Israeli Skin Cancer Association v. National Insurance Institute, Minister of Labor,
A California federal court granted in part a habeas petition from a noncitizen detained without notice or a hearing, requiring an immigration judge to hold an individualized bond hearing within seven days with the government bearing a clear-and-convincing burden.