EAJA Awards
| Agency | Agency subcomponent | Name | Award date | Award amount | Awardees | Claims description | Finding basis | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other Agency | U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) | Johnson v. Railroad Retirement Board |
$ 9,177
|
Robert A. Friedman | Ms. Johnson filed a petition for review of the RRB's decision regarding her late husband's annuity beginning date. The parties settled the case when RRB agreed to pay additional months of annuity benefits, as well as attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to the EAJA. As a result of the settlement agremeent, Ms. Johnson voluntarily withdrew the case. | Settlement agreement | Show | |
| Other Agency | U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) | U.S. Railroad Retirement Board and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local No. 375 |
$ 20,015
|
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) | AFGE filed a grievance over the removal of a bargaining-unit employee. | An independent arbitrator found that the agency did not have just cause to remove the employee | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Justice | U.S. Marshals Service (subcomponent of DOJ) and U.S. Department... | Western States Center, Inc., et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
$ 144,043
|
Attorneys for Western States Center, Inc., First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, Sara D. Eddie, Representative Janelle S Bynum, and Representative Karin A. Power | Plaintiffs were granted a preliminary injunction on First Amendment grounds related to protest activity around the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, which was vacated 1.5 weeks later. They had asserted retaliatory intent by the administration. The case was later dismissed on mootness grounds after the administration changed. | The judge found that tweets and public statements from President Donald Trump and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf supported an inference that the government's law enforcement activities were conducted with retaliatory intent. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Justice | U.S. Marshals Service | Kenneth Fisher v. David A. Singer, et al. |
$ 53,320
|
Attorneys for Kenneth Fisher | Plaintiff was granted a preliminary injunction to receive cataract surgery. The prisoner was scheduled to eventually be transferred to Bureau of Prisons custody and the U.S. Marshals Service assessed, per practice, that he could wait to have catatact surgery until after his transfer to the Bureau of Prisons. | The judge found that Plainitff would likely succeed on the merits of his Eighth Amendment claim and was likely to suffer irreparable Harm without an injuction. The parties settled on the attorney's fees. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security... | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Citizenship and I... | Saravia v. Garland, et al. |
$ 1,950,000
|
Plaintiff’s counsel (1) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Northern California; (2) Cooley LLP; (3) ACLU Foundation Immigrants’ Rights Project; (4) New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation; and (5) Law Offices of Holly S. Cooper | The three named plaintiffs in this class action were all unaccompanied alien children who had previously been in the custody of ORR and were released. After release, ICE officers arrested them. Plaintiffs alleged that ICE re-detained them based on their suspected gang ties, but failed to afford them a hearing before an immigration judge. | Settlement agreement | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Sessions | Null | REDACTED | Habeas petition | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Sessions | Null | REDACTED | Habeas petition | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Jennings |
$ 7,074
|
REDACTED | Habeas/stay of removal | Immigration judge and Board of Immigration Appeals violated due process. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Figueroa | Null | REDACTED | Habeas/temporary restraining order | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | I.J. v. Keeton | Null | I.J. | Habeas/temporary restraining order | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | Frimmel Management v. USA |
$ 92,000
|
Frimmel Management, LLC | 4th amendment evidence suppression issue. ALJ refused to suppress employment records obtained during ICE investigation. | Omissions and distortions in local law enforcement search warrant affidavits violated the Fourth Amendment. Evidence obtained by agency therefore constituted fruit of unlawful search. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Sessions | Null | REDACTED | Habeas corpus/temporary restraining order | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Barr |
$ 107,204
|
REDACTED | Petition for review | Executive Office of Immigration Review did not take into account all relevant information, including mental competency, when making particularly serious crime determination & EOIR's interpretation of the immigration statutes not entitled to deference. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Barr |
$ 21,220
|
REDACTED | Petition for review | Agency had no authority to detain or order removal where petitioner showed that he acquired citizenship. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | REDACTED v. Whitaker | Null | REDACTED | Petition for review | Null | Show |