Group Changes Strategy After Supreme Court Ruling, Seeks to Convert to Class Action Suit

The ACLU filed a separate class action lawsuit in a different federal district court.
Group Changes Strategy After Supreme Court Ruling, Seeks to Convert to Class Action Suit
The District Court of Maryland building in Rockville, Md., on Sept. 13, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
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Just a few hours after the Supreme Court ruled against them, CASA, Inc., the organization representing immigrants opposed to President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, altered its strategy and filed another suit in the same District Court, this time submitting their complaint as a class action.

“The Supreme Court’s recent stay opinion acknowledges that courts may award injunctive relief beyond the named parties when the case is brought as a class action,” the plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote to the District Court of Maryland.
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