PAGE 14 Strategic Litigation Global and local law firms partnered with NGOs to successfully litigate against a variety of laws, policies, and practices impacting on the rights of refugees and others forcibly displaced. Detention: Morrison & Foerster worked with NGO partners to support individual immigration detainees to be released from detention, where they were at a heightened risk of exposure to COVID-19, and was co-counsel for an impact lawsuit to help improve conditions in an immigration detention center in Arizona, U.S. In the latter, the court found the conditions in the center violated the U.S. Constitution and granted a permanent injunction requiring the detention center to provide detainees with certain basic minimum standards. A witness in the trial – a former detainee of the immigration detention center - shared: “I feel very happy to know that things are going to change in these detention centers and that people will not have to spend much time under the conditions I was detained in. I am very happy to know that I helped make things better for all of the people who follow; so many people will benefit from being treated better during the time they have to be detained there.” Orrick worked with local organizations to secure a ground-breaking application for a preliminary injunction to force the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take immediate steps to protect people in immigration facilities from the virus or release these individuals in the interest of public health. Deportation: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher represented a number of local refugee rights organizations to successfully challenge a proposed rule change that would have dramatically increased the fees for individuals defending themselves against deportation, as well as a Trump-administration decision to abolish a policy deferring the deportation of asylum-seekers and others who came to the United States as children. Gibson Dunn prevailed in both cases, preventing the policies - which could have led to wrongful deportation and unlawful refoulement of asylum-seekers in violation of U.S. treaty obligations and international law - from coming into effect.