Lisa Lu focuses her practice on complex litigation matters. While at Stanford Law School, she served as a legal intern at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office and the ACLU of Northern California. She also served as a full-time clinic student in Stanford’s Environmental Law Clinic, volunteered with the Housing Pro Bono Project, and conducted research for the Rhode Center as a Civil Justice Fellow. Prior to law school, Lisa was a computational science research fellow at Stanford Law School’s Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab. Before that she was a software engineer at Lyft. Lisa earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude in computer science from Harvard University.
We represent a class of more than 1,000 people held at California City Detention Facility who argue that the facility fails to provide for their basic human needs—adequate clothing, basic medical care, conditions of confinement consistent with civil (rather than criminal) detention, disability accommodations, and access to lawyers. Working with the Prison Law Office, the ACLU National Prison Project, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, we secured class certification and a preliminary injunction requiring ICE and DHS to provide constitutionally adequate medical care, enhanced access to counsel, and temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets for people held at California City. Importantly, the court also agreed to appoint an independent monitor to ensure delivery of adequate medical care.
In reporting on the status of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Standard covered a series of federal court rulings that rebuke the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including three cases brought by Keker, Van Nest & Peters and its nonprofit partners. Read more
Law.com gave a “Litigator of the Week Shout-Out” to Keker, Van Nest & Peters for its role in securing a preliminary injunction requiring federal immigration authorities to provide constitutionally adequate medical care to people detained at the California City ICE Detention Facility, located in the Mojave Desert. Read more
U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to provide constitutionally adequate medical care, temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets, and meaningful access to legal counsel. The court also required the appointment of an independent monitor to ensure medical care, and it provisionally certified the class, which includes the more than 1,000 individuals detained in the facility, which is run by a for-profit prison company. Read more
U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney has ordered that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security must provide competent, consistent, and effective medical care to detainees held in the California City Detention Facility, with an external monitor to be appointed to ensure that medical care meets constitutional requirements. Judge Chesney also ordered ICE to provide detained people with temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets, and to ensure timely and confidential access to legal counsel both in person and telephonically. The decision comes after a November class action lawsuit filed by Keker, Van Nest & Peters, the Prison Law Office, and the ACLU National Prison Project. Read more
Detained immigrants enduring grim conditions are suing ICE, citing meager medical care, limited access to attorneys, repeated lockdowns, and a ban on contact visits with family, reports KQED. Read more
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