SOCIETY OF the DIVINE WORD, Chicago Province; National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is in the United States; Illinois Great Rivers Conference of the United Methodist Church; Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions; Brown Missionary Baptist Church; India Heritage Foundation, NJ/NY Inc.; Baptist Mid-Missions; General Secretariat of the Franciscan Missions, Inc.; the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines; First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo; Grace-Trinity United Church of Christ; Birmingham Chinese Christian Church; Diocese of Peoria, Illinois; Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit; Algood Baptist Church, d/b/a Church on a Hill; Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), Indiana-Kentucky Synod; & Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), New Jersey Synod, Plaintiffs,
v.
UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS); Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; and Donna P. Campagnolo, Director, USCIS California Service Center (CSC), Defendants.
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Signed July 20, 2023.
Signed July 20, 2023.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Scott D. Pollock, Christina Joan Murdoch, Scott D. Pollock & Associates, P.C., Chicago, IL, Stephen L. Tyma, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs Society of the Divine Word Chicago Province, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, Illinois Great Rivers Conference of the United Methodist Church, Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, Baptist Mid-Missions, Grace-Trinity United Church of Christ, General Secretariat of the Franciscan Missions, Inc., Brown Missionary Baptist Church, First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, India Heritage Foundation, NJ/NY Inc., The Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Birmingham Chinese Christian Church, Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit.
Christina Joan Murdoch, Scott D. Pollock, Scott D. Pollock & Associates, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, (ELCA), New Jersey Synod, Algood Baptist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Indiana-Kentucky Synod.
AUSA, Craig Arthur Oswald, Elizabeth Inez Treacy, United States Attorney"s Office, Chicago, IL, Aaron Goldsmith, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.
MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER
Robert W. Gettleman, United States District Judge.
Plaintiffs are tax-exempt religious institutions and bring their fourth amended complaint against defendants United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS"); Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...
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