DeSantis pushes for dismissal of lawsuit brought by migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard [View all]

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by Zach Schonfeld - 03/01/23 10:44 AM ET


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Venezuelan migrants that the state flew to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., in September.

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DeSantis and the other defendants on Tuesday urged a federal judge in Massachusetts overseeing the case to dismiss the lawsuit, or in the alternative, transfer the case to a federal court in Florida.

“Before even getting to whether Plaintiffs’ allegations state a plausible claim for relief, this extraordinary suit faces insurmountable defects concerning jurisdiction, standing, venue, and multiple immunity doctrines. The Amended Complaint should be dismissed in its entirety for multiple, independent reasons,” attorneys for DeSantis and the other state defendants wrote in a court filing.
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“The bottom line is that Governor DeSantis doesn’t want to be hauled into a Massachusetts court, but he surely hauled distressed migrants to Martha’s Vineyard without compunction,” said Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights. “Governor DeSantis essentially pretends that Perla Huerta, a former spy, was running around plotting on her own. But she was not alone. It is not surprising that Governor DeSantis and his co-defendants are throwing up every procedural argument they can think of, in a desperate attempt to avoid facing the music for this callous political stunt.”............

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3879104-desantis-pushes-for-dismissal-of-lawsuit-brought-by-migrants-sent-to-marthas-vineyard/

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