NAT. IMMIGRATION PROJECT v. DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC.

No. 11 civ. 3235(JSR).

842 F.Supp.2d 720 (2012)

NATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrant Defense Project, Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, and Rachel Rosenbloom, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, United States Customs and Border Protection, United States Immigration And Customs Enforcement, United States Department of Justice, United States Department of State, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Order Granting Stay February 24, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Babette Morawetz, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Patricia L. Buchanan, Shane Patrick Cargo, U.S. Attorney Office, New York, NY, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

"Trust everybody, but cut the cards," as the old saying goes.1 When the Solicitor General of the United States makes a representation to the Supreme Court, trustworthiness is presumed. Here, however, plaintiffs seek to determine whether one such representation was accurate or whether, as it seems, the Government's lawyers were engaged in a bit of a shuffle.

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