Overview
- A three-judge Seventh Circuit panel temporarily stayed U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis’s injunction limiting agents’ use of force, calling it too broad and too prescriptive.
- The panel warned against overinterpreting the stay and indicated a narrower injunction could be appropriate on a fast-track appeal focused on First and Fourth Amendment claims.
- In a separate ruling, the court paused Judge Jeffrey Cummings’s order to release hundreds of detainees on $1,500 bonds, keeping many in custody with oral arguments set for December 2.
- Federal prosecutors dismissed charges against Marimar Martínez, who was shot by a Border Patrol agent, and also dropped a case against protester Dana Briggs.
- Earlier hearings featured allegations of indiscriminate tear gas and pepper-ball use and judicial findings that some federal testimony lacked credibility, against the backdrop of thousands of arrests and detainee transfers tied to the Midway Blitz.