Asylum Seekers’ Class Suit Over Prolonged Detention Survives Dismissal Motion

Mealey's (November 30, 2017, 8:49 AM EST) -- BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York federal judge on Nov. 17 denied a motion to dismiss a class lawsuit brought by asylum seekers who have been held in a federal detention facility in Batavia, N.Y., for long periods of time and granted the detainees’ motion for preliminary injunction (Hanad Abdi, et al. v. Elaine Duke, et al., No. 17-721, W.D. N.Y., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 191568)....

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