| USCIS Stopped
Publishing Its Decisions in 2025
Now Says 100 a Week Judge Mulls
Contempt
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 23 รข€“ In March 2025 US
Citizenship and Immigration
Services stopping publishing
its Administrative Appeals
Office non-precedent
decisions. USCIS was sued in
February 2026 and on March 23
was up before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge Jed
S. Rakoff. Inner City Press
was there: DOJ says they can
now publish 100 decisions a
week. Judge
Rakoff: I don't understand why
it takes the US Gov't so long.
The Courts publish their
decisions within minutes. DOJ lawyer: Our
opinions have personal
information like sexual abuse.
Judge
Rakoff: How long are you
decisions? Answer: Two or
three pages. Judge
Rakoff: So a couple of minutes
to read and ID what needs to
be redacted. So 10 minutes of
less each DOJ lawyer: If we
put resources into this, it
would take away from other
urgent FOIA requests. Judge Rakoff: I'm
not hearing that this is being
given the speed and attention
that it seems to me it
deserves. Reluctantly I will
give you one more week/ So
file something by next Monday,
or the court may use its
contempt power.
Adjourned The case is The Legal Aid Society, et al., v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al., 1:26-cv-1140 (Rakoff)
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USCIS Stopped Publishing Its Decisions in 2025 Now Says 100 a Week Judge Mulls Contempt
