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The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations.

Check out this in-depth New Yorker piece about the rampant medical neglect at the California City ICE Detention Facility. Our attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit seeking humane conditions and adequate medical care so that people detained there can survive. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Federal Judge Refuses to Stay Lawsuit Over Border Patrol Tactics

A judge has again refused to pause litigation challenging the Border Patrol’s brazenly unconstitutional stops and arrests in California’s Central Valley: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs| Law.com Runners-up this week include litigation teams from Robins Kaplan, Akin, Jackson Walker and McGuireWoods.

This week’s Litigators of the Week column gives a shout-out to Bailey Heaps and KVP for defeating IP and fraud claims tied to Vividion Therapeutics’ $2 billion sale to Bayer: www.law.com/litigationda...

KVP won a significant victory for our life sciences client in Delaware Chancery Court, which dismissed with prejudice Cardinal Partners’ claims against Vividion Therapeutics’ founding chemist stemming from the company’s $2 billion sale to Bayer: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

A courthouse arrest, a surprise pregnancy, and one family's shattered dreams "I can't go back to Colombia."

A Mother Jones feature on mass deportations contrasts one asylum seeker's arrest and removal to Colombia with legal efforts by Keker partner Erin Meyer that freed a second woman detained by ICE at the same time. Read the in-depth feature here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We are proud to announce the promotion of Victor Chiu, Deeva Shah, and Christine Zaleski to partner, and Niall Frizzell and Candice Nguyen to of counsel! Read more about them here: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Judge rejects DOJ's subpoena to Children's Hospital Colorado over transgender care The U.S. Department of Justice has suffered another setback in its efforts to subpoena providers of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in order to obtain patient information and details about...

We appreciate that a federal magistrate has rejected the DOJ's attempt to subpoena private patient medical records from our client Children's Hospital Colorado because of its improper purpose to pressure the pediatric hospital into ending legal transgender care. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

KQED Forum interviewed partner Cody Harris about ICE agreeing to provide immediate medical care for two individuals being held in the California City Detention Facility, after the individuals filed their petition for emergency relief. Listen 👇read more - www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Happy holidays from Keker, Van Nest & Peters!

Warmest holiday wishes from everyone at KVP. We are grateful for our community and connections we share! 💫

A Huge Sea Change: Federal Judge Blocks ICE's Immigrant Re-Detention Policy

A federal judge has blocked ICE's policy of re-arresting and re-detaining immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area, finding the government failed to justify a dramatic departure from decades of immigration enforcement practice: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Federal Court Blocks Unlawful ICE Policy of Re-arresting Immigrants Without Legal Justification - ACLU of Norcal The court order provisionally certified the case as a class action

A federal district judge has put a stop to ICE’s cruel and unlawful practice of seizing people at courthouses in Northern and Central California when they show up for their immigration hearings. Learn more:

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Wrapping gifts and spreading holiday cheer 🎁
Keker attorneys and staff came together once again to support the Bar Association of San Francisco's Holiday Gift Program, donating and wrapping gifts for 75 children at two San Francisco schools, Wu Yee OMI and Wu Yee Scotia.

Learn why Judge William Alsup called Bob Van Nest’s questioning of an expert in Oracle v. Google one of the best moments of lawyering he has ever seen and a “brilliant, brilliant cross-examination.” www.keker.com/news/news-it...

'I am afraid that I might die here': ICE detainee fears 'imminent death' without lifesaving care, lawyers say In an emergency motion, attorneys asked a federal judge to order ICE to immediately provide lifesaving medical care to two detainees held at the California City Detention Facility.

Without basic medical care, detainees at the largest ICE detention center in CA are facing "imminent death." We, along with the ACLU, the Prison Law Office, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, are fighting to get them the care they need to survive: www.latimes.com/california/s...

KVP together with the ACLU asked a federal judge this week to halt ICE's "incredibly traumatizing" practice of re-arresting and re-detaining immigrants who are already complying with the law: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

California Groups Challenge Federal Shift on Immigration Detention Policy

KVP is challenging ICE's practice of re-arresting and re-detaining law-abiding immigrants who have been cleared by the government. We filed a federal class-action lawsuit with the ACLU arguing the Trump administration's unexplained reversal of longstanding policy: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

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John Keker

John Keker

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie with the San Franciscans of the Year

We had the honor of celebrating our founding partner, John Keker, at the SF Examiner's San Franciscans of the Year Icons Celebration, where he was recognized "for his fearless defense of justice and civic integrity." www.keker.com/news/news-it...

LCLD Top Performer and Compass Award

KVP is proud to announce that we have been honored by LCLD as a 2025 Top Performer and Compass Award winner, recognizing our continued commitment and involvement in LCLD's important programming and mission-driven work.

The US Supreme Court Case That Could Break the Internet

Imagine a world where a bot-generated takedown notice can kick you off the internet. That could become reality if the Supreme Court agrees that internet providers are liable for users' copyright infringement: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Forcing political loyalty questions on federal worker applicants undermines civil service protections and violates the First Amendment. Keker, @democracyforward.org, and @protectdemocracy.org are taking the lead in defending America’s nonpartisan civil service: www.law360.com/employment/a...

Keker Sues DHS, ICE Over Allegedly Inhumane Conditions at Calif. Detention Center

Described as worse than prison, the conditions at the largest ICE detention facility in CA are inhumane. With the lives of detainees at stake, KVP has joined Prison Law Office, the ACLU, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice in filing a class action: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Keker sues ICE over alleged treatment at California City facility

We are not going to stand by when conditions at the largest ICE detention facility in California blatantly violate the law. Read more about the class action we filed with the Prison Law Office, the ACLU Foundation, and the CA Collaborative for Immigrant Justice: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Immigrants Sue Trump Administration Over Inhumane Conditions at California’s Largest Immigration Detention Center Eight people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sued the Trump administration over inhumane conditions at California’s largest immigration detention center, the privately owned Cali...

Punishing conditions, alarmingly inadequate medical care, failure to accommodate people with disabilities, and restricted access to counsel: The conditions at the largest ICE detention facility in California blatantly violate the law. Read more: www.keker.com/news/immigra...

Congratulations to KVP partner Erin Meyer for receiving the Member Impact Award from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the SF Bay Area. Revisit Erin’s action in freeing two asylum seekers from ICE with help from KVP attorneys Jonhatan Aragon & Kayla Crowell: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Keker Files Lawsuit Over Trump 'Loyalty' Question in Civil Service Job Applications Law.com featured Keker, Van Nest & Peters’ filing of a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s “loyalty question” on civil service job applications, a new requirement that asks candidat...

Asking politically motivated loyalty questions in civil service job applications is not only wrong, it is unconstitutional. Learn more about KVP’s efforts to keep the civil service nonpartisan: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

John Keker shares the story of his shirt at Swords to Plowshares' 29th annual Veterans Day Celebration last week in San Francisco. John was introduced by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who earlier in the day had announced her retirement after nearly 40 years in Congress.

Keker's stand shows The City's spine SF lawyer a vocal critic of Trump adminsitration targeting law firms.

“Democracy is not a state of being. It’s an act.” John Keker talks about the city he loves, his military service, and standing up to the Trump administration in this San Franciscan of the Year profile: www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-cit...

Keker joins democracy groups suing to protect civil service from Trump-Vance loyalty test

Demanding political loyalty from civil servants has no place in our democracy. That's why KVP is joining @democracyforward.org and @protectdemocracy.org in defending the integrity of America’s nonpartisan civil service: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

LAWSUIT FILED Protect Democracy Challenges Civil Service Loyalty Test USAJobs.gov application imposes political criteria on non-political civil servants

Today, w/ @democracyforward.org & @kekerllp.bsky.social, we filed suit on behalf of unions AFGE, @afscme.bsky.social, & NAGE over the Trump admin’s politicization of the fed hiring process via its “Merit Hiring Plan,” which we allege exists to seek political loyalty to POTUS. 🔗 protdem.org/47OVPz5