Jennings

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANGEL DE JESUS ZEPEDA RIVAS, et Case No. 20-cv-02731-VC al.,

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

PROVISIONAL CLASS

v. CERTIFICATION, GRANTING

MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY

DAVID JENNINGS, et al., RESTRAINING ORDER, AND

DENYING MOTION FOR A STAY

Defendants.

A group of ICE detainees at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility and the Yuba County Jail have filed a proposed habeas class action challenging the conditions of their confinement. They contend they are at serious risk of becoming infected with Covid-19 because ICE has refused to alter conditions at the facilities so as to enable people to keep their distance from one another. The plaintiffs have filed a motion to provisionally certify a class of all detainees at the facilities, along with a motion for a temporary restraining order requiring ICE to take measures that will enable social distancing. The government, for its part, has moved for a stay of these proceedings in light of a separate case in which a federal judge certified a nationwide class of immigration detainees challenging ICE’s overall response to the…