Munger, Tolles & Olson Recognized for Landmark Immigration Rights Work in Los Angeles 

On January 27, Los Angeles County Board Chair and First District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis honored the plaintiffs and legal teams behind Vasquez Perdomo et al. v. Noem et al., a landmark civil rights lawsuit challenging the federal government’s unconstitutional immigration enforcement tactics that began in Los Angeles in June 2025. The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations presented the group with its Human Rights Award for defending the rights of immigrant communities and upholding the rule of law. 

The lawsuit, filed on July 2, 2025, was brought on behalf of individuals and organizations including the Los Angeles Worker Center Network, United Farm Workers and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. It alleged that federal enforcement agents conducted unlawful stops and detentions without reasonable suspicion and engaged in racial profiling.  

Munger, Tolles & Olson worked alongside the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and a coalition of public interest law firms representing the plaintiffs. On July 11, the district court issued a temporary restraining order that barred federal agents from targeting individuals based on race, language, location or occupation alone.  In August 2025, a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel denied the federal government’s request to stay the TRO, preserving critical protections against unconstitutional “roving” immigration stops that lacked individualized reasonable suspicion. In the months since, the Supreme Court granted the federal government’s request for a stay of the TRO, but the case continues to proceed before the trial court, which has ordered expedited discovery to test the government’s contentions that they have not violated the Constitution.  

MTO’s pro bono team — Jacob Kreilkamp, Elaine Goldenberg, David Fry, Sara Worth, Jeremy Kreisberg, Jamie Luma, Paul Martin, Henry Shreffler, Kyle Groves, Maggie Bushell, Danny Kane, Lauren Kuhn, Laura Perry Stone, Clareanne Goschke, Sahil Alim and Angela Uribe — play a central role in the case.  A separate MTO team, consisting of Martin Estrada, Dan Levin, John Schwab, Grace Davis Fisher, Wendy Xiao, Roman Leal, Bobby Kim, Becca Hansen and Jin Niu, represent 22 municipalities across the Central District of California, including the City of Los Angeles, as intervenors in the case.   

The recognition from Los Angeles County underscores the sustained impact of this litigation on immigrant communities across the region and reflects Munger, Tolles & Olson’s ongoing commitment to pro bono advocacy against systemic abuses of power.