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A class-action settlement regarding ICE detainers.
A modest but growing record of plaintiffs forcing monetary relief from ICE exists: community groups and individual U.S. citizens have won settlements such as a $150,000 payment to Brian Bukle for an u...
Federal courts in 2024–2025 increasingly rebuked ICE practices that led to the wrongful detention of U.S. citizens, imposing limits on warrantless arrests, detainer practices, and some mandatory-deten...
A growing body of federal case law has found core detainer practices unlawful under the Fourth Amendment and related statutes, producing injunctions, class settlements, and limited monetary awards tha...
A small but growing body of federal court rulings has produced enforceable remedies and injunctions against ICE practices that have led to the wrongful detention of U.S. citizens, most prominently the...
Federal courts have repeatedly ruled against in individual and systemic cases alleging wrongful detention of citizens and lawful residents, including injunctions, consent-decree enforcement and awards...
Tribes confronting ICE detentions can draw on a mix of immediate procedural steps, administrative avenues, and federal litigation rooted in tribal sovereignty, citizenship recognition, and constitutio...
Federal law gives authority to seek custody of noncitizens through administrative tools like detainers and administrative warrants, but federal regulations treat detainers as requests rather than comm...
There is no authoritative, nationwide statistic in the provided reporting that answers how often courts rule for plaintiffs in wrongful-arrest suits against ICE; available sources instead show a patte...
Federal courts have repeatedly found key aspects of ICE’s detainer regime unconstitutional, concluding that detainers issued without a neutral probable‑cause determination and often based on error‑rid...
Since 2010 federal courts have steadily constrained ICE detainers by treating detainer-based holds as seizures implicating the Fourth Amendment, requiring probable cause and neutral review, and holdin...
Federal courts in recent years have produced a patchwork of decisions and settlements that have constrained some ICE practices when entering private homes—most notably the Central District of Californ...
U.S. citizens wrongfully detained by ICE have pursued a range of legal remedies — habeas corpus petitions, constitutional suits against officers (Bivens-style), Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claims a...
ICE "detainers" are administrative requests that ask local jails to notify ICE of a person's release and hold them up to 48 hours for transfer; they carry no independent arrest warrant power, and cour...
Federal courts have, in multiple landmark decisions, found particular ICE enforcement practices unconstitutional—most notably judicial orders blocking warrantless detainers based solely on electronic ...
Civil‑rights organizations have, in the past five years, recorded a steady stream of concrete outcomes against ICE—class settlements that release detainees or restrict detainers, court judgments affir...
Available reporting does not provide a single, definitive count of how many U.S. citizens have filed claims or received settlements after wrongful ICE detention since 2000; reporting instead documents...