Cases: Immigrant Justice

Pablo Sequen v. Albarran (ICE Courthouse Arrests & Detention Conditions)

Posted: November 7, 2025

On September 18, 2025, a coalition of immigrants’ rights organizations and pro bono counsel filed a federal class action lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its policy of courthouse arrests …

Immigrant ARC et al. v. Department of Justice et al.

Posted: August 11, 2025

LCCRSF and advocates have filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for their policy of arresting people when they show up to the courthouse and preventing them from pursuing their …

Otero v. Kaiser (Release from ICE detention)

Posted: August 6, 2025

On August 3rd, 2025, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Ismael, a 20 year old asylum …

Peters v. Mesa Verde ICE Detention Center (Prolonged ICE Detention)

Posted: May 15, 2025

On April 29, 2025 we filed a habeas petition on behalf of Prince Peters, a refugee from Liberia who has been detained in ICE custody for over five years without …

Y.G.H. v. Donald Trump (ICE Detention & Imminent Removal Under Trump’s Proclamation Invoking Alien Enemies Act)

Posted: April 16, 2025

On April 14, 2025, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area filed a habeas corpus petition in the Eastern District of California, seeking an emergency order …

Yunseo Chung v. Donald Trump (Challenging Imminent Detention and Removal Under Trump’s Crackdown on Free Speech)

Posted: April 16, 2025

Status: Open

On March 24, 2025, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) filed a federal lawsuit challenging Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) unlawful targeting of 21-year-old …

Doe v. Garland (Prolonged ICE Detention)

Posted: March 27, 2025

Status: Open

Description The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) is fighting to uphold constitutional due process rights for individuals subjected to prolonged immigration detention without …

LCCRSF v. Department of Homeland Security (FOIA Lawsuit Regarding ICE Raid)

Posted: March 27, 2025

Status: Open

Description The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

J.C.O.C. v. United States (Family Separation)

Posted: November 6, 2023

Status: CLOSED

Description On October 16, 2023, a Honduran father and daughter* in the Bay Area filed a lawsuit against the United States government for forcibly tearing them apart at the border and subjecting them …

Mendez v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Hunger Strike in ICE Detention)

Posted: March 9, 2023

Status: CLOSED Description On February 23, 2023, five people detained at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield, CA, and the Golden State Annex in McFarland, CA, filed a …

I.T. et al. v. United States (Family Separation)

Posted: September 20, 2022

Status: CLOSED

Description Three indigenous Guatemalan families ripped apart under the family separation policy filed a lawsuit against the United States government. The plaintiffs join a group of, now, ninety-nine plaintiffs who …

Vega v. Management and Training Corporation (Immigrant Detention)

Posted: October 21, 2021

Status: CLOSED

Description On October 14, 2021, Carlos Murillo Vega, a man who spent 14 months in solitary confinement while detained by ICE, sued private detention company Management and Training Corporation (MTC) …

Wilbur P.G. et al v. United States of America (Family Separation)

Posted: June 10, 2021

Status: CLOSED

Description Three Bay Area families who were separated at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2018 filed suit this morning against the U.S. government seeking damages for the harm immigration officials inflicted …

Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings (Immigration Detention)

Posted: April 20, 2020

Status: CLOSED

A class action lawsuit against ICE for violating the constitutional rights of immigrants detained in Mesa Verde and Yuba County jails by keeping them in dangerous, crowded, unsanitary conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doe v. Wolf (Border Patrol)

Posted: June 8, 2015

Status: CLOSED

A class action lawsuit filed against U.S. Customs and Border Protection for violating the constitutional rights of immigrants in their care, resulting in the permanent injunction that immigrants in CBP custody must have access to basic human needs.