Litigation
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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Defending humane and effective alternatives to immigration detention
This case under the Freedom of Information Act asks why the federal government ended a program that returned a 100% immigration court appearance rate without detention or surveillance at 90% of the cost.
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Doe v. Rhoden: Stopping sexual abuse in immigration detention
This case seeks accountability for Ana Doe, a 33-year-old woman who survived human trafficking only to be sexually abused by guards at Florida’s Baker County Immigration Detention Facility.
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US transfers to CECOT (El Salvador): Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared to El Salvadoran Mega-Prison
Four groups, including RFK Human Rights, filed a request seeking precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against El Salvador for the unlawful detention of hundreds of individuals forcibly and illegally transferred from the United States in recent months.
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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Exposing coercion of unaccompanied children
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks to expose the U.S. government’s practice of depriving unaccompanied immigrant children of legal protections from deportation and imprisonment in adult detention centers by destroying their birth certificates, coercing false confessions of adulthood, and falsifying age records through racially biased, pseudo-scientific forensic tests.
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Monroe v. United States: Dismantling barriers to accountability for police brutality
This case seeks to protect the human right to a remedy and reparation for survivors and victims of U.S. police brutality. It asks the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to instruct the United States to reform civil laws to ensure access to civil remedies for people subjected to police brutality.
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Fulton v. Noem: Ensuring medical discharge planning upon release from ICE detention
Second Circuit panel holds that courts likely have jurisdiction over challenge by man with end-stage renal failure to lack of medical discharge planning prior to removal.
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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Ensuring oversight of immigration enforcement
This case challenges the executive branch’s sudden closure of three oversight offices within the Department of Homeland Security that Congress mandated be created, funded, and staffed in order to safeguard human rights and protect the public from government wrongdoing.
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Prisoners’ Legal Services v. Department of Homeland Security: Protecting the First Amendment and attorney-client privilege in immigration detention
This case challenges the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility practice of opening and retaining privileged legal documents transmitted to detained people, including documents given in-person by attorneys meeting with clients.
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Transgender Law Center v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Exposing cruel and degrading treatment of trans people in immigration detention
Federal court orders government to release documents exposing cruel and degrading treatment of transgender people in immigration detention.
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