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Restoring Due Process: How Bond Hearings Under Rodriguez V. Robbins Have Helped End Arbitrary Immigration Detention
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December 8, 2014
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CaliforniaOct 2015
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Rodriguez, et al. v. Robbins, et al.
On October 29, 2015, a federal appeals court affirmed and expanded its prior ruling that immigrants in prolonged detention receive a bond hearing. In Rodriguez v. Robbins, a class-action lawsuit , the court upheld an order requiring bond hearings for detainees locked up six months or longer while they fight their deportation cases. The ruling stands to benefit thousands of immigration detainees across the Ninth Circuit, where an estimated 25% of immigrant detainees are held every year.