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  1. July 03, 2024

    Asylum-Seeking Families Split At Border Get $1.3M Deal OK'd

    An Arizona federal judge on Tuesday signed off on a $1.3 million settlement that the federal government reached with families who were separated at the southern border in 2018 amid the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy that prosecuted migrants who entered the U.S. illegally. 

  2. April 11, 2024

    Feds Agree To Settle Damages Over 2018 Migrant Separations

    The Biden administration is on track to settle two lawsuits from families that alleged serious harm from a Trump-era policy that resulted in children and parents being separated at the southern border, according to Arizona federal court filings.

  3. February 28, 2024

    Feds Fear Unlimited Discovery In Separated Families' Cases

    The Biden administration cautioned an Arizona federal judge against allowing migrant families separated under the Trump administration to obtain deposition transcripts from another family separation case, saying the request set no limits on how much more evidence could be collected.

  4. October 26, 2023

    Family Separation Suit Against Feds Will Go To Trial

    The U.S. government is not immune from allegations made by a group of migrant parents that being separated from their children at the southwest border amounted to intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence, an Arizona federal judge has ruled.

  5. October 25, 2023

    Feds Not Immune From Separated Migrant Families' Suit

    An Arizona federal judge has determined that federal officials are not immune from claims brought by migrant families separated under the Trump-era zero-tolerance policy because the evidence suggests the policy was implemented with disregard for the harm it could cause.

  6. August 16, 2023

    Feds Hit With Discovery Sanctions In Family Separation Suit

    An Arizona federal judge said some evidentiary sanctions against the federal government were warranted over its late disclosure of handwritten notes in a suit brought by migrant families seeking damages for their forced separation under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy.

  7. March 20, 2023

    Feds Say Migrants Want Sanctions For 'Harmless' Documents

    The federal government defended its late disclosure of documents against demands for sanctions from a group of migrant families, telling an Arizona federal judge a Trump administration official's notes covered information already shared, rendering the delay "harmless" to the families' case.

  8. March 13, 2023

    Families Urge Judge To Find US Wanted Separations To Hurt

    A group of migrant families urged an Arizona federal judge to find that the U.S. government separated families to intentionally inflict the alleged severe emotional trauma for which they are seeking money damages, and recklessly disregarded warnings about the policy's potential impact.

  9. December 16, 2022

    Migrant Families Want Sanctions For Late Agency Docs

    Five migrant families suing the U.S. government over alleged psychological effects of the Trump administration's family separation policy have asked an Arizona federal judge for sanctions, arguing that government attorneys failed to produce documents that would have helped the families' case.

  10. November 17, 2022

    Feds Get OK For Psych Exams Of Migrant Parents

    The federal government got the green light from an Arizona federal judge to conduct psychological examinations of asylum-seeking parents suing for damages for the alleged emotional trauma from being separated from their children at the southwestern U.S. border.

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