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DOJ Lawyer Held in Civil Contempt of Court
Judge orders $500 daily fine on DOJ lawyer until detained immigrant's ID documents are returned amid a surge of over 1,000 wrongful detention cases in Minnesota, court records show.
- On Feb. 18, U.S. District Judge Laura M. Provinzino found Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Isihara in civil contempt and ordered him to pay $500 per day starting Feb. 20 until the immigrant's ID is returned and receipt certified.
- Faced with an influx of habeas petitions, wrongful detention filings in Minnesota have swelled to more than 1,000 since Operation Metro Surge began Dec. 1, straining the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota and prompting military lawyers to fill staffing gaps.
- At the hearing, Julie Le told the judge `The system sucks, this job sucks` when asked about ICE violations.
- The judge's action comes as courts are inundated, with Rosen calling the order a `lawless abuse of judicial power` after the contempt finding involving Rigoberto Soto Jimenez.
- Minnesota's federal bench has pressed prosecutors with repeated hearings in the past month after the chief federal judge identified nearly 100 ICE violations in a late January order, driven by a policy change requiring detention of nearly all arrested noncitizens.
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By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN - A federal judge in Minnesota held a Trump administration lawyer in civil contempt for "flagrant disobedience of court orders" in the case of a non-citizen detained as part of the immigration crackdown earlier this year. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino, issued Wednesday, appears to mark the first time a federal government lawyer has faced court-imposed sanctions during President Donald Tru…
Star Tribune
Federal judge finds DOJ lawyer in contempt amid swell of immigration cases
The lawyer acknowledged the case “slipped through the cracks” as the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota buckles under flood of immigration filings.
Minnesota Judge Holds DOJ Lawyer in Civil Contempt, Imposes $500 Daily Fine Until ICE Returns ID Documents to Released Immigrant
A U.S. District Judge in Minnesota has found a Department of Justice special assistant U.S. attorney in civil contempt and ordered him to pay a coercive fine of $500 per day — starting Friday — until an immigrant unlawfully detained by ICE has all his identification documents returned, according to the case docket. U.S. District Minnesota federal judge holds DOJ lawyer in civil contempt, imposes $500 daily fine until ICE returns ID documents to r
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