Manuel De Jesus Ortega Melendr v. Joseph M. Arpaio

How courts have described this case

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• finding that plaintiffs’ reasonable fear of being subject to unlawful detention absent a preliminary injunction may constitute irreparable harm
• discussing that an individual may be “unlawfully” present in the United States under civil immigration law without having committed a crime
• holding plaintiffs had standing 13 to pursue an injunction against a sheriff’s office where the district court found the office 14 “engaged in a pattern or practice” of unconstitutional stops
• holding there was “no abuse of discretion in the district court’s determination that the equities favor issuance of a narrow, limited preliminary injunction” that does not enjoin the enforcement of valid state laws
• “[S]tanding is not appropriate where a plaintiff can 7 avoid injury by avoiding illegal conduct . . .”
• affirming plaintiffs had standing to bring constitutional claim where government policy targeted them for seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).