May 18, 2023
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.
May 11, 2023
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.
May 03, 2023
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.
February 28, 2023
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."
November 29, 2022
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.
September 21, 2022
Applying a recently established First Circuit framework, a federal judge said Wednesday that a group of migrants suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials who allegedly duped them into flying to Martha's Vineyard could bring their claims anonymously.
September 20, 2022
Three asylum-seekers who allege they were tricked into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, saying he violated their constitutional protections against unreasonable seizures by leaving them "stranded" on the Massachusetts island with false promises of relief.