JJLM defeats the United States Government’s Motion to Dismiss Isidro Andrade-Tafolla’s case.

Oregonians should be free from racial profiling and unconstitutional seizures. Mr. Andrade-Tafolla, a Washington county resident and U.S. citizen, was illegally detained by ICE agents after leaving the Washington County Courthouse. With the help of Johnson Johnson Lucas & Middleton and ACLU of Oregon, Mr. Andrade-Tafolla has sued the federal government for violating his rights. Last week the Oregon District Court denied the government’s Motion to Dismiss Mr. Andrade-Tafolla’s case, finding that the ICE agents’ conduct of racially profiling Mr. Andrade-Tafolla and stopping him without reasonable suspicion that he had committed a crime was not protected under the discretionary immunity doctrine.

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Isidro Tafolla v. ICE

“Although the ICE agents did not identify themselves as federal law enforcement, their alleged actions would have communicated to a reasonable person that he was not at liberty to ignore their presence and go about his business… the authoritative tone used to question Plaintiff combined with the allegations that six agents surrounded him while their vehicles blocked in his truck support a finding that a reasonable person in [Mr. Tafolla’s] position would feel that he was not at liberty to ignore the agents’ presence and go about his business.” –From the Opinion of Judge Immergut, District of Oregon

Attorneys on this case:

Jennifer J. Middleton

Caitlin Mitchell

JJLM defeats the United States Government’s Motion to Dismiss Isidro Andrade-Tafolla’s case.

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