9th Circuit Retroactively Dismisses 2 ICE Detainee Pandemic Appeals

Mealey's (March 30, 2023, 2:36 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a one-page order retroactively dismissing nunc pro tunc two of three appeals challenging a trial court’s grant of a preliminary injunction in a class complaint by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees who allege that the response to the coronavirus pandemic placed detainees with certain risk factors at a heightened risk of severe illness and death; the order comes more than a year after an opinion was issued in the third appeal reversing the preliminary injunction....