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213082P.pdf 11/30/2022 Myriam Parada v. Anoka County
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-3082
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Grasz and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. The defendants' policy of referring every
foreign-born arrestee to ICE and holding them until ICE responded was an
example of national-origin discrimination and violated plaintiff's Equal
Protection rights because every foreign-born person was required to wait
20 minutes to 6 hours for ICE while for those born in the U.S. there was
no such call, and release was immediate; the policy was not specifically
and narrowly framed to accomplish the County's interests, and the County
had national-origin-neutral alternatives at its disposal; argument that
plaintiff changed her theory of liability rejected; arguments that direct
liability against a county for false imprisonment does not exist or does
not exist on these facts was not raised on a timely basis; defendant
failed to produce any evidence showing it was entitled to statutory
immunity; attorney-fee award affirmed.