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12 Discriminatory Profiling Cases

Muslim Ban Sign
California
Oct 2023

Discriminatory Profiling

Wagafe v. USCIS - Lawsuit Challenging Secret Program Blocking Immigrant Applications

The Ƶand its affiliates in Southern California and Washington, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the Law Offices of Stacy Tolchin, and Perkins Coie LLP filed a class action lawsuit in January 2017 challenging a federal government program used to deny or indefinitely delay thousands of law-abiding people—many of them from Muslim-majority countries—from becoming citizens or lawful residents due to unspecified “national security concerns.”
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Wagafe V. Uscis - Lawsuit Challenging Secret Program Blocking Immigrant Applications. Explore Case.
California
Oct 2023
Muslim Ban Sign

Discriminatory Profiling

Wagafe v. USCIS - Lawsuit Challenging Secret Program Blocking Immigrant Applications

The Ƶand its affiliates in Southern California and Washington, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the Law Offices of Stacy Tolchin, and Perkins Coie LLP filed a class action lawsuit in January 2017 challenging a federal government program used to deny or indefinitely delay thousands of law-abiding people—many of them from Muslim-majority countries—from becoming citizens or lawful residents due to unspecified “national security concerns.”
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Professor Xi
Court Case
May 2023

Discriminatory Profiling

Xi v. United States – Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance

The Ƶrepresents Xiaoxing Xi, a Chinese-American physics professor at Temple University, who is suing the government over its dismissed prosecution of him for supposedly sharing sensitive technology with scientists in China. The lawsuit, filed in 2017, challenges the FBI’s baseless arrest of Xi and it surveillance methods as well as its discriminatory targeting of Chinese-American scientists.
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Xi V. United States – Challenge To Warrantless Surveillance. Explore Case.
Court Case
May 2023
Professor Xi

Discriminatory Profiling

Xi v. United States – Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance

The Ƶrepresents Xiaoxing Xi, a Chinese-American physics professor at Temple University, who is suing the government over its dismissed prosecution of him for supposedly sharing sensitive technology with scientists in China. The lawsuit, filed in 2017, challenges the FBI’s baseless arrest of Xi and it surveillance methods as well as its discriminatory targeting of Chinese-American scientists.
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A portrait of Sherry Chen
Court Case
Dec 2022

Discriminatory Profiling

Sherry Chen v. United States

In October 2021, the Ƶjoined the legal team representing Sherry Chen, an award-winning Chinese American scientist who was wrongfully investigated, prosecuted, and terminated from her job as a hydrologist with the National Weather Service. The government accused Ms. Chen of unlawfully downloading sensitive government data and falsely portrayed her as a spy for China. On the eve of trial, the Justice Department dropped all charges against her. In 2019, Ms. Chen filed a federal lawsuit against the United States, seeking accountability for the government’s misconduct. In December 2022, Ms. Chen reached a historic settlement of her federal lawsuit and a separate case before the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that hears claims from federal employees. The settlement, one of the largest paid to an individual plaintiff in Commerce Department history, includes compensation valued at approximately $1.8 million.
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Court Case
Dec 2022
A portrait of Sherry Chen

Discriminatory Profiling

Sherry Chen v. United States

In October 2021, the Ƶjoined the legal team representing Sherry Chen, an award-winning Chinese American scientist who was wrongfully investigated, prosecuted, and terminated from her job as a hydrologist with the National Weather Service. The government accused Ms. Chen of unlawfully downloading sensitive government data and falsely portrayed her as a spy for China. On the eve of trial, the Justice Department dropped all charges against her. In 2019, Ms. Chen filed a federal lawsuit against the United States, seeking accountability for the government’s misconduct. In December 2022, Ms. Chen reached a historic settlement of her federal lawsuit and a separate case before the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that hears claims from federal employees. The settlement, one of the largest paid to an individual plaintiff in Commerce Department history, includes compensation valued at approximately $1.8 million.
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Pictures of people
California
Apr 2021

Discriminatory Profiling

Kashem, et al. v. Barr, et al. - ƵChallenge to Government No Fly List

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Kashem, Et Al. V. Barr, Et Al. - Aclu Challenge To Government No Fly List. Explore Case.
California
Apr 2021
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Kashem, et al. v. Barr, et al. - ƵChallenge to Government No Fly List

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A collage that displays how the Ƶshows up when it matters most. The collage includes photos of Black Lives Matter signs, the Statue of Liberty, the Capitol, and more.
Court Case
Apr 2019

Discriminatory Profiling

Zainab M.

Zainab M. is an author, journalist, and CEO. For years, she endured intrusive searches, detention, and questioning every time she traveled by air or reentered the United States from abroad. The government’s harassment and abuse of Zainab suggest that she has been targeted for additional scrutiny because of her religion or her work as a writer.
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Court Case
Apr 2019
A collage that displays how the Ƶshows up when it matters most. The collage includes photos of Black Lives Matter signs, the Statue of Liberty, the Capitol, and more.

Discriminatory Profiling

Zainab M.

Zainab M. is an author, journalist, and CEO. For years, she endured intrusive searches, detention, and questioning every time she traveled by air or reentered the United States from abroad. The government’s harassment and abuse of Zainab suggest that she has been targeted for additional scrutiny because of her religion or her work as a writer.
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