14 results for 'cat:"Immigration" AND cat:"Public Record"'.
J. Blakey partially grants motions for summary judgment from both a collection of immigrant rights and civil rights advocacy groups, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The advocacy groups seek documents from the agency related to its "Citizens Academy" programs via Freedom of Information Act requests. The agency styles as the Citizens Academies as community outreach programs but it has been slow to produce the information the advocacy groups seek, and some of the documents it has produced have redactions. The court finds the agency's search for relevant records has been adequate in all but one regard, and orders both parties to prepare a sample of contested documents for in-camera review.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Blakey, Filed On: May 8, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv2519, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Government, immigration, public Record
J. Wolford allows plaintiff to continue amended claims contending customs and border protection wrongfully revoked a Canadian attorney's membership in the "trusted traveler program," falsely arrested him, and withheld agency records. The agency's discretion is not beyond review under the Administrative Procedure Act, and the attorney plausibly alleged he had been aggrieved by being disqualified from the program. However, the attorney failed to properly name individual customs officers in constitutional claims.
Court: USDC Western District of New York, Judge: Wolford , Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv257, NOS: Administrative Procedure Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision - Other Suits, Categories: Civil Rights, immigration, public Record
J. Contreras denies, in part, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's motion for summary judgment on a press group's Freedom of Information Act case seeking records concerning two asylum seekers and information on ways calls from detainees at ICE facilities in El Paso, Texas were limited or blocked. The agency has failed to show it conducted a good faith search for the records at issue.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Contreras, Filed On: December 28, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv2932, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Government, immigration, public Record
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J. Contreras denies, in part, the Department of Justice's motion for summary judgment pertaining to withheld documents in a trauma center's Freedom of Information Act case concerning the department's office of immigration litigation. Certain documents are not exempt from disclosure, as they are not protected by either attorney-client privilege or deliberative process privilege.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Contreras, Filed On: October 17, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv3517, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: immigration, public Record
J. Kennelly splits competing summary judgment motions between a Northwestern University professor pursuing FOIA requests, and several U.S. government agencies seeking to block those FOIA requests. The professor is conducting research into the government’s practice of deporting its own citizens and in pursuit of that research filed FOIA requests with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Justice, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The agencies didn’t respond to several of these requests, so he filed suit. The court partially resolves the dispute by dismissing the DOJ and DHS as defendants, ordering the remaining agencies to provide some the information the professor requested, while allowing them to withhold other information. The court will also allow the professor to replead her case for several of the FOIA requests the court denied in this ruling.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: October 2, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5072, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Government, immigration, public Record
J. McFadden grants, in part, summary judgment to a nonprofit on its Freedom of Information Act case related to records regarding people who had died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency failed to conduct an adequate search, and it also failed to support two exemptions used to withhold certain documents.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: McFadden, Filed On: September 5, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv3030, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: immigration, public Record
J. Kelley allows a government agency’s motion for summary judgment against an individual suing it for failure to provide him with all immigration-related documents he requested. Only one document was missing and, while the individual noted that the agency failed to search an internal shared drive, it chose not to do so because that shared drive contained drafts rather than final decisions.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Kelley, Filed On: August 10, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv11817, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: immigration, public Record, Discovery
J. Casper partially allows an advocacy clinic’s motion for summary judgment against government agencies for violating the Freedom of Information Act by failing to adequately find and provide records of ICE's use of solitary confinement in immigration detention centers, and partially allows the government agencies’ motion for summary judgment as well. Unverified first impression observations are not considered deliberative and therefore don’t have deliberative process privilege. However, some of ICE’s records cannot be publicized without causing security risks.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Casper, Filed On: July 21, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv12030, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: immigration, public Record
J. McFadden grants a trauma center's motion for attorney fees following its successful Freedom of Information Act case against the Department of Homeland Security. Its requested $200,000 in fees is reduced to $106,000 due, in part, to ambiguous billing and the need for a lower hourly rate.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: McFadden, Filed On: May 16, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv1128, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: immigration, public Record, Attorney Fees