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Alianza Americas et al v. DeSantis et al

  1. March 31, 2025

    Migrants Can't Sue DeSantis In Mass., Judge Reaffirms

    A group of asylum-seeking Venezuelan migrants who say they were lured into boarding flights to Massachusetts by associates of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis more than two years ago still cannot pursue most of their claims in the Bay State, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

  2. October 21, 2024

    Migrant Groups Say DeSantis Suit About Fraud, Not Politics

    Groups suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials for allegedly tricking migrants into boarding a flight to Martha's Vineyard have told a Massachusetts federal judge that their case is not about politics, but about the fraud they say was perpetrated on 49 people for a photo op.

  3. September 10, 2024

    DeSantis Blasts Mass. Suit Over Martha's Vineyard Flights

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shouldn't have to fight "conspiracy theory" claims in Massachusetts over whether the Sunshine State tricked migrants into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard, the governor said in a sweeping dismissal bid.

  4. July 08, 2024

    Migrants Want Another Try In Martha's Vineyard Flight Suit

    Several migrants who claim they were tricked into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard have asked a Massachusetts federal judge to let them file an amended suit in an effort to cure the jurisdictional issues that doomed the initial complaint in March.

  5. April 01, 2024

    DeSantis Ducks Mass. Suit Over Migrant Flights

    A Massachusetts federal judge has released Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and most other defendants from a proposed class suit by a group of migrants who claim they were duped into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction.

  6. May 18, 2023

    NAACP Compares Migrant Flights To 'Reverse Freedom Rides'

    The Martha's Vineyard Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People compared efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials to those of segregationists of the 20th century, saying tricking migrants onto flights to the Massachusetts island resembled efforts to relocate Black citizens in the 1960s via "Reverse Freedom Rides," according to a proposed amicus brief the NAACP filed Wednesday in federal court.

  7. May 11, 2023

    DeSantis Can't Escape Suit In Mass., Asylum-Seekers Say

    Asylum-seekers who say Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stranded and humiliated them in Martha's Vineyard insist he must face a lawsuit in Massachusetts over the stunt, arguing his own actions empowered the Massachusetts federal court to summon him for trial.

  8. May 03, 2023

    Evangelical Group Can't File Amicus In DeSantis Migrant Suit

    A religious group won't be allowed to push its way into a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others involved in a flight that stranded migrants on Martha's Vineyard because it failed to show why its outside voice is needed, a Boston federal judge said Wednesday.

  9. February 28, 2023

    DeSantis Rips 'Unprecedented' Suit Over Stranded Migrants

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pressed a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss an "unprecedented" suit by migrants who say the Republican and other state officials tricked them into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard and left them stranded there, saying the suit is laden with "insurmountable defects."

  10. November 29, 2022

    Flight Co., Ex-Army Agent Added To Stranded Migrants' Suit

    Asylum-seekers who accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of luring them onto Martha's Vineyard-bound flights with false promises of shelter and other aid added a flight company and an ex-Army counterintelligence agent as defendants in their lawsuit alleging constitutional violations.