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We filed an amicus brief to support the Stanford Daily student newspaper's challenge of the Trump administration's unlawful use of the Immigration Nationality Act to suppress noncitizens' protected speech supporting Palestine and criticizing Israel. Read More

We filed two motions seeking preliminary orders to prevent ICE from arresting immigrants at courthouses and detaining them overnight in unsafe conditions in holding cells meant for temporary detention at ICE offices while the federal class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's unlawful immigration enforcement tactics proceeds. Read More

The federal class-action lawsuit challenges the Trump administration's practice of unlawfully arresting and detaining immigrants whom the government previously determined were not dangerous or a flight risk. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a federal court decision protecting Venezuelans with Temporary Protected Status while it appeals the lower court’s ruling. Read More

The federal class-action lawsuit challenges the Trump administration's policy of arresting people when they appear for their mandatory hearings in immigration court and holding them for days in a makeshift detention center without access to beds, basic hygiene supplies, medical care, or legal counsel. Read More

The five-year settlement requires the city to follow its bag-and-tag policy and establishes strong oversight measures. The Coalition on Homelessness sued San Francisco in 2022 over its practice of seizing and destroying unhoused residents’ belongings during encampment sweeps in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Read More

A federal district court found that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem did not have the authority to cancel the extension of Temporary Protected Status the Biden administration had granted to more than one million Venezuelans and Haitians who have lived and worked lawfully in the US for years. (Photo courtesy of Sam Comen) Read More

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal while the case proceeds. The people affected by the court's ruling have lived in the United States for more than a decade. Read More

A letter to the Vallejo City Council argues that leaving these grave allegations unaddressed would undermine confidence in city government and worsen an existing public safety crisis in Vallejo where police officers shot and killed 30 people from April 2001 to June 2020. Read More

The National TPS Alliance sued the Trump administration over the federal government's termination of Temporary Protected Status for thousands of people from Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua who have lived lawfully in the United States for many years. Read More

The petition demonstrates that racial disparities in California’s implementation of the death penalty are persistent, pervasive, and well documented. Black people are about five times more likely to be sentenced to death when compared to similarly situated non-Black defendants, while Latino people are at least three times more likely to be sentenced to death. Read More

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling allows Donald Trump to retain control of the California National Guard troops he deployed in Los Angeles while the state's lawsuit proceeds. Read More