Court Cases

Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian national who was acquitted of terrorism-related charges last year, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia challenging his prolonged unlawful detention and inhumane treatment by the United States. Mr. Trabelsi is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the University of Chicago Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, the ACLU of Virginia, and Professor Jonathan Hafetz of Seton Hall Law School.

On March 12, 2024, ACLU of Virginia filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit on behalf of an immigrant survivor of domestic violence whose request for a U visa certification the Roanoke Police Department is refusing to certify in open defiance of state law.

The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition and the ACLU of Virginia are suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Henry County Sheriff’s Office, for detaining Mr. Eduardo Guerrero Ortiz under the color of federal immigration law for seven months at the Henry County Adult Detention Center without charge.

Amica Center for Immigrants’ Rights (formerly CAIR Coalition), the National Immigration Project, and the ACLU of Virginia sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for arbitrarily detaining people in Virginia after they won immigration cases that protected them from deportation to their countries of origin where they face persecution, torture, or death.

Seeking Enforcement of FOIA Request

Prince William County Loitering

FOIA Lawsuit Pertaining to Reproductive Health Care for Undocumented Minors

Mass Loitering Arrest of Latino Day Laborers