
Judge denies Justice Department's effort to move detained Tufts student's case to Louisiana
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Washington — A federal judge on Friday rejected an effort by the Justice Department to throw out a Tufts University Ph.D. student's challenge to her detention after she was taken into custody by immigration authorities or have her case moved to Louisiana, finding instead that her case should be transferred to Vermont.
In addition to ruling that the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student, should be moved to a different court, U.S. District Judge Denies Casper blocked the government from removing Ozturk from the U.S. to ensure she has the opportunity to have her petition challenging her detention heard in Vermont.
Casper, who sits on the district court in Massachusetts, was weighing a case involving Ozturk, who was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside of her Somerville, Massachusetts, apartment on March 25 after her student visa was revoked.