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24-1997-cv J.M. v. Sessions In the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ___________ August Term 2025 Argued: October 3, 2025 Decided: December 23, 2025 No. 24-1997-cv

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, United States District Judge This case arises out of the government's controversial "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, under which immigrant parents unlawfully entering the United States with their young children were subject to criminal prosecution and forcibly separated from their children for several weeks. On June 26, 2018, Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the United States District Court for the Southern District of

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, United States District Judge *311Plaintiffs are six children who were forcibly separated from their parents shortly after crossing the United States border with Mexico. They bring this action by and through their parents and next friends under Rule 17(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Under the government's "zero-tolerance" policy adopted ear

Hon. Dana M. Sabraw, United States District Judge Plaintiffs are migrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents shortly after crossing the United States-Mexico border. The children entered the United States with their parents at or between ports of entry and were fleeing violence from countries in Central America. They were seeking refuge in the United States and hoped to be granted asylum together as a family. Howe

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Judge Rosemary S. Pooler concurs in a separate opinion. POOLER, Circuit Judge: *184 On April 15, 2015, Levy Alberto Jaen was served with a Notice to Appear charging him with removability under Sections 237(a)(1)(B) and 237(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality

Vague laws invite arbitrary power. Before the Revolution, the crime of treason in English law was so capaciously construed that the mere expression of disfavored opinions could invite transportation or death. The founders cited the crown's abuse of "pretended" crimes like this as one of their reasons for revolution. See Declaration of Independence ¶ 21. Today's vague laws may not be as invidious, but they can invite the exercise of arbitrary

RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part: I agree with the majority in most respects but would grant the petition on Mwagiru’s withholding of removal claim. Women or girls who reasonably fear the gender-based persecution of FGM qualify as members of a particular social group. See Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.

SUMMARY ORDER Petitioner Anderson Neil Richards, a native and citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, seeks review of a June 20, 2014 decision of the BIA remanding to permit the Government to submit the plea transcript from Richards’ underlying conviction, and a February 22, 2016 decision of the BIA affirming an order of removal entered by the Immigration Judge (“U”). In re Anderson Neil Richards, No. A038 738 677 (B.I.A.

PER CURIAM: * Luis Mario Suarez Dominguez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s decision to dismiss his appeal regarding his motion to reopen his removal proceedings. Suarez Dominguez now argues that the Board erred because he is entitled to equitable tolling of the 90-day statutory period in which to move to reopen and, thus, his motion is timely. Because his equitable tollin

Judicial review of all questions of law and fact, including interpretation and application of constitutional and statutory provisions, arising from any action taken or proceeding brought to remove an alien from the United States under this subchapter shall be available only in judicial review of a final order under this section. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no court shall have jurisdiction, by habeas corpus under section 2241 of Ti

GINSBURG, Senior Circuit Judge: This case coimes to the court on a petition for interlocutory appeal of the district court’s denial of certification for a class consisting of African-American deputy U.S. Marshals alleging racial discrimination by the United States Marshals Service (USMS). The district court denied class certification on the ground that-the sole named plaintiff, Herman Brewer, did not satisfy the adequacy and

ORDER Honorable G. Murray Snow, United States District Judge Pending before the Court are Petitioner Sazar Dent’s (“Dent”), (Doc. 182), and the Respondent Jeff B. Sessions’s, (Doc. 180), respective motions for summary judgment on Dent’s constitutional due process claim. For the following reasons, the Court grants the Respondent’s motion and denies Petitioner’s motion.1

CHIN, Circuit Judge: Petitioner July Rafael Bueno Gil (“Gil”) seeks review of a September 10, 2015 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the decision of an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) finding him ineligible for derivative citizenship and denying his motion to terminate removal proceedings. Gil was born in the Dominican Republic and was admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident. His pa

HUNTER, JR., ROBERT N., Judge. Defendants appeal from an order compelling discovery. The trial court ordered Defendants to produce documents withheld by the Defendants based on their assertions that the documents were prepared in anticipation of litigation and were therefore subject to confidentiality based on application of the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine or th

SUMMARY ORDER Following our decision in Morales-Santana v. Lynch, 804 F.3d 520 (2d Cir. 2015), the Government appealed to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court affirmed this Court’s judgment in part and reversed in part, remanding the case for further proceedings. Sessions v. Morales-Santana, — U.S. -, 137 S.Ct. 1678, 198 L.Ed.2d 150 (2017). The Supreme Court held that while “[t]he gender-based distincti

ORDER Fredy Hernandez-AIvarez petitions for review of the denial of his application to cancel his removal to Mexico. He has two children who are U.S. citizens. He contends they would suffer “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” if he were removed. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l)(D). An immigration judge and then the Board of Immigration Appeals concluded that he did not show such hardship. He challenges this conclusion and contends th

WOOD, Chief Judge. This court carefully screens all appeals and other matters filed with it to ensure that there are no jurisdictional problems, either at the district court or agency level or before us. In conducting this screening, we rely on the jurisdictional information furnished by the parties. Seventh Circuit Rule 3(c)(1) requires the docketing statement filed by the appellant (or petitioner, as the case may be) to “co

MCCONNELL, District Judge. The petitioner, Juan Manuel Sánchez-Romero (Sánchez), seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) denial of his untimely motion to reopen removal proceedings based on changed conditions. Because we do not spot an abuse of discretion, Sánchez’s petition is denied. I. Sánchez, a Mexican national,

DENNIS JACOBS, Circuit Judge: Petitioner Jose Linares-Urrutia seeks review of a November 13, 2014 decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing his appeal from the denial of applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. An asylum claim must be filed within one ye