August 12, 2021
A California federal judge ordered a Golden State immigration detention center to report to a court-appointed special master and opposing counsel any time a detainee who has previously tested positive for COVID-19 is put in the facility's infirmary, moved to a hospital, or dies.
July 08, 2021
GEO Group Inc. can't intervene in a class action challenging the federal government's COVID-19 safety precautions at one of its detention facilities after a California federal judge ruled it waited too long to fight an order to lower crowding.
March 22, 2021
A California federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to explain how a vulnerable detainee at its Adelanto detention center died of COVID-19 shortly after being sent to a hospital, saying the agency appeared to hide his condition by saying the man was "released."
October 19, 2020
Days after criticizing government attorneys for "straight up dishonesty," a California federal judge overseeing a class action challenging COVID-19 safety conditions at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center said he'd appoint a government-paid special master to ensure information handed over is accurate and timely.
October 15, 2020
A California federal judge excoriated the government attorneys defending a suit from a class of detainees challenging COVID-19 safety conditions at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Adelanto, California, detention center Thursday, slamming their "straight up dishonesty" while threatening to hold them in contempt of court and assign a special master to the case.
September 22, 2020
A California federal judge certified a class of detainees in a suit challenging COVID-19 safety conditions at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Adelanto, California, detention center, ruling Tuesday that all the members share a Fifth Amendment substantive due process claim.
August 11, 2020
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is violating a preliminary injunction at its Adelanto, California, detention center by transferring in detainees from centers with known COVID-19 outbreaks and failing to test detainees with symptoms, a proposed class of detainees argued Monday.
July 27, 2020
A California federal court Monday held U.S. Immigration and Customs in contempt, finding that the agency violated its April orders by re-detaining a Vietnamese immigrant who has chronic asthma and is at risk for having complications from the coronavirus.
April 30, 2020
Constitutional law professors and public health professionals are calling on the Ninth Circuit to allow immigrants' staged release from the crowded Adelanto detention center, saying the detainees' risk of contracting COVID-19 increases each day they're in the facility.
April 24, 2020
A California federal judge ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately lower the number of people held at its Adelanto, California, center in light of the government's "callous disregard" to prisoner safety amid the coronavirus pandemic.