U.S. Customs and Border Protection building Washington, D.C. June 6, 2020.

UC System Taps Crowell & Moring in ICE Student Visa Litigation

The University of California's legal team, which includes Crowell & Moring's Jennifer Romano and Emily Kuwahara, said the policy change is "cruel and dangerous," in the complaint filed July 10.

July 13, 2020 at 03:49 PM

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Alaina Lancaster
Litigation editor

The original version of this story was published on The Recorder

The University of California system has enlisted Crowell & Moring in its suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement over its new policy requiring international students to leave the United States if their coursework has become fully remote in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The complaint filed July 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California follows a similar suit brought by Johns Hopkins University last week.

Crowell & Moring's Jennifer Romano and Emily Kuwahara and a team of lawyers from the University of California's Office of the General Counsel said ICE's rule change "displays a callous disregard for students."