A Southern District of California judge granted a writ of habeas corpus for Cesar Enrique Guerrero Urbina, ordering his immediate release from ICE custody after finding that his re-detention violated procedural due process rights.
A Southern District of California judge has ordered the immediate release of Gabriel Perez Velasquez, a Mexican national detained by immigration authorities, ruling that his bond hearing was constitutionally inadequate because the immigration judge failed t...
The Southern District of California granted a writ of habeas corpus for Moaz Adam, a Sudanese citizen, holding that his re-detention after the revocation of humanitarian parole violated the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
Plaintiffs Elizabeth Cruz and Hilarino Aparicio allege that San Diego police officers killed Imanol Aparicio by continuing to shoot him after he was incapacitated, a result they attribute to the department’s “combat shooting” policy.
Judge Andrew G. Schopler of the Southern District of California has ordered the government to determine whether it will concede that detained immigrant Kevin Antonio Trejo Blanco is entitled to a bond hearing, citing a nationwide trend of successful challen...
A federal judge struck Apple's inequitable conduct and unclean hands affirmative defenses in a patent infringement case, holding that Apple's pleadings failed to satisfy Rule 9(b)'s particularity requirements — though Apple gets one more chance to replead m...
A federal judge in San Diego dismissed all employment-discrimination claims brought by a longtime Walmart associate who alleged supervisors bullied him, passed him over for management, and punished him with a job reassignment.
A federal judge conditionally certified a collective action brought by San Diego firefighters who allege the city systematically excluded a paramedic certification bonus from their regular rate of pay when calculating overtime under the Fair Labor Standards...
A Southern District of California judge held that detaining an asylum seeker for more than a year under INA § 1225(b) without an individualized bond hearing violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, and ordered the government to provide one within...
A San Diego federal judge has frozen a putative class action alleging California Labor Code violations by Becton, Dickinson and Company and TechDigital Corporation, finding that a substantially similar state court class action filed roughly 20 months earlie...
A Southern District of California judge has paused a putative class and PAGA representative action accusing Assurance IQ and Prudential Financial of misclassifying insurance agents as independent contractors, citing a near-settled parallel state court case...