Plaintiffs—National TPS Alliance (NTPSA) and seven individual plaintiffs—bring this litigation challenging the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. As a result, Nepali TPS holders stand to lose their status by August 5, 2025, and Honduran and Nicaraguan TPS holders losing their status by September 5, 2025.
Plaintiffs argue that the federal government’s decisions to termination TPS for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua are unlawful because the government failed to consider important factors as required by the TPS statute, provided inadequate notice, and were motivated at least in part by intentional race- and national-origin-based animus in violation of the Constitution.
On July 8, 2025, Plaintiffs filed a motion to postpone the effective date of the decisions terminating TPS for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. The Court set a hearing on this motion on July 29, 2025.
On July 31, the Court granted relief to Plaintiffs and blocked/postponed the effective terminations of TPS for the affected countries until at least November 18, 2025. The federal government filed a notice to appeal that order to the Ninth Circuit, while also asking the district court to temporarily stay (pause) her order while the appeal proceeds. On August 8, the Court denied the government’s request to stay the July 31 order.
On August 15, Plaintiffs filed a motion to certify multiple subclasses for the case: a Honduras TPS class, Nepal TPS class, and a Nicaragua TPS class. A hearing for this motion will be held on September 16.
On October 2, the Court certified a Honduras TPS class, Nepal TPS class, and Nicaragua TPS class.
Technical Summary
Plaintiffs allege that the Secretary of DHS’s actions in terminating Honduran, Nepali, and Nicaraguan TPS and providing inadequate notice violates the Administrative Procedure Act (arbitrary and capricious, and abuse of discretion, otherwise not in accordance with law), and the equal protection guarantee of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Plaintiffs seek declaratory relief in addition to a postponement or stay of the TPS terminations at issue.
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