Immigration,
Constitutional Law
Sep. 30, 2025
Fourth Amendment erodes as immigration raids hit home
The Supreme Court's decision in Noem v. Perdomo builds on decades of precedent permitting immigration stops based on race or ethnicity, legitimizing the Trump Administration's violent targeting of Latino and Hispanic Angelenos and signaling a broader erosion of Fourth Amendment and equal protection rights nationwide.
Dan L. Stormer
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New York Univ SOL; New York NY
Sarah Cayer
Attorney
Hadsell, Stormer, Renick & Dai LLP
Harvard Law School, 2020
Sarah Cayer earned a B.A. with high honors from Oberlin College in 2015 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2020. At Harvard she served as an Articles Editor on the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. After law school, she completed a fellowship with Inner City Law Center, where she represented low-income tenants in eviction proceedings. Today, Sarah represents plaintiffs in class action litigation and individual civil right cases.
The Trump Administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have capitalized on the Supreme Court's recent history of legitimizing race or ethnicity as bases for immigration stops to directly target Los Angeles. The Supreme Court's decisions on this topic in the last fifty years, such as United States v. Martinez-Fuente, 428 U.S. 543, 563 (1976) and United States v. Hernandez-Moya, 353 Fed. Appx. 930, 933 (9th Cir. 2009), laid the foundation for armed...
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