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Litigation

Jan. 28, 2014

Settlement: SF immigrant detainees will not be shackled in court

Immigrant detainees who appear in San Francisco will no longer be routinely restrained when appearing in court thanks to a settlement in a federal class action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.

By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Immigrant detainees who appear in San Francisco will no longer be routinely restrained when appearing in court thanks to a settlement in a federal class action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, among other lawyers. The civil rights complaint filed in 2011 in the Northern District of California claimed thousands of immigrants suffered physical and emotional pain from being restrained at the ankles, waist and wri...

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