D.A. v. Noem
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and law firm, Grossman Young & Hammond, challenge seeking to stop government from deporting case plaintiffs to their countries of origin via Ghana, and to compel their return to the United States.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Immigrant Rights, Immigration Detention
Alma Bella Bowman v. Jason Streeval, Ladeon Francis, et al.
Alma Bella Bowman, a longtime Georgia resident and immigrants’ rights activist unjustly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March 2025, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia seeking her immediate release.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Immigration Detention, Equal Protection, Derivative Citizenship
Silva v. U.S. Attorney General
In January 2022, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), and Foley & Lardner LLP filed a petition for review with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the deportation of Kelvin Silva and asserting that the exclusion of unwed U.S.-citizen fathers from the former derivative naturalization statute violates Equal Protection.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Derivative Citizenship, Equal Protection, Fifth Amendment
Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta v. Raffensperger
Advancing Justice-Atlanta and several Asian American voters are challenging new and discriminatory state law restrictions on absentee-by-mail voting after AAPI voters relied heavily on voting by mail in 2020 and 2021.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Federal Voting Rights Act, Intentional Discrimination, Undue Burden on the Right to Vote, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, Voting by Mail
GALEO v. Gwinnett County Board of Elections
Advancing Justice-Atlanta and several other local voting rights organizations are challenging Gwinnett County’s and the Secretary of State’s persistent failures to provide all election materials to Gwinnett County voters bilingually in English and Spanish.
Status: Decided • Issues: Language Access, Voting Rights Act
Martinez v. Donahue; Benavides v. Gartland
In April 2020, Advancing Justice-Atlanta, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Kilpatrick Townsend filed a habeas petition and civil rights complaint on behalf of several medically vulnerable immigrants detained at the three Georgia ICE detention centers to seek their release during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Status: Decided • Issues: Immigration Detention, Indefinite Detention
Trinh v. Homan
In February 2018, Advancing Justice-Atlanta filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against ICE to challenge the prolonged and indefinite detention of Vietnamese refugees.
Status: Decided • Issues: Immigration Detention, Prolonged Detention, Indefinite Detention
Singh v. Sessions
In May 2018, Advancing Justice-Atlanta appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals a federal judge’s decision denying the release of an immigrant whose removal ICE could not effectuate.
Status: Decided • Issues: Immigration Detention, Prolonged Detention, Indefinite Detention
Kwon v. Crittenden
To protect LEP voters in the state-only December 4, 2018 run-off election, Advancing Justice-Atlanta filed a lawsuit in late November 2018 to challenge the law.
Status: Decided • Issues: Language Access, Voting Rights Act
Georgia Muslim Voter Project v. Kemp
In October 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Georgia Muslim Voter Project and Advancing Justice-Atlanta, to protect Georgia voters who had their absentee ballots or absentee ballot applications rejected due to an alleged “signature mismatch.”
Status: Decided • Issues: Absentee Ballot, Constitutional Due Process
Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda v. Kemp
In October 2018, Advancing Justice-Atlanta and other civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit to challenge the new “exact match” law.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Exact Match, Voting Rights Act, Constitutional Due Process
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. State of Georgia
In 2017, Advancing Justice-Atlanta joined several other civil rights organizations to challenge a Georgia statutory scheme that requires Georgians to register to vote three months in advance of a federal runoff election in order to cast a ballot.
Status: Decided • Issues: Federal Runoff
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Kemp
In 2016, Advancing Justice-Atlanta and several other civil rights organizations sued the Georgia Secretary of State over Georgia’s voter registration verification process.
Status: Decided • Issues: Exact Match, Constitutional Due Process, Voting Rights Act