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Tiffany (often called “Tiffany Doe” in filings) is an anonymous witness named in the 2016 civil suits by the plaintiff known as Katie Johnson (also “Jane Doe”); court documents and reporting say she c...
A cluster of court decisions, a decades-old consent decree known as , and a flurry of litigation in response to ’s 2018 “zero tolerance” policy were the legal fulcrums that shaped in the 2010s; courts...
The Flores Settlement Agreement, originating from litigation in the 1980s and formalized in 1997, set nationwide standards for the detention, release and treatment of immigrant children and required t...
’s required the and other federal defendants to comply with the ’s protections for minors by October 23, 2015, including applying Flores to children detained with their parents, prioritizing prompt re...
During the Obama administration the expansion of family detention in 2014–2016 prompted a cascade of legal challenges, court rulings that curtailed aspects of the policy, and sustained congressional p...
Reporting on the Katie Johnson (also filed as “Jane Doe”) lawsuits shows a recurring anonymous supporting witness identified as “Tiffany Doe,” described in court filings and media accounts as someone ...