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Attorneys representing the Chicago Headline Club and local journalists who fought for a broad injunction limiting federal agentsA use of force have abruptly moved to dismiss their lawsuit as the Trump administrationAs
vastly increased immigration efforts across Illinois appear to have
oended.o

In a three-page filing, attorneys representing the Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Newspaper Guild Local 34071, Block Club Chicago and other media organizations said now that Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino and scores of federal immigration agents have left the Chicago area, othe situation that precipitated the relief sought in this litigation has changed in a
material way.o

oSpecifically, it appears that Operation Midway Blitz, has ended,o they
wrote. oThe roughly 200-225 DHS agents led by Defendant Bovino who
traveled from Los Angeles to the Chicagoland area are no longer operating
in the Northern District of Illinois. Moreover, since Defendant Bovino and
his agents left the Northern District, PlaintiffsA counsel has not
received a single report of unconstitutional behavior that necessitated
this case since November 8, 2025.o

The lawsuit was filed after journalists, protesters and clergy members
claimed they had been targeted by federal immigration agents, who
subjected them to a opattern of extreme brutalityo through their usage of
riot control weapons without justification.

Finding that federal immigration enforcement agents repeatedly used force
that oshocks the conscienceo and then lied about their actions, U.S.
District Court Judge Sara Ellis issued a sweeping preliminary injunction
as part of that lawsuit designed to permanently rein in agentsA use of
tear gas, pepper balls and other crowd control measures.

Witnesses in her courtroom testified during a daylong hearing last month
about agents pointing firearms at them without provocation, being hit with pepper balls or tear gas and threatened simply for documenting immigration detentions.

Ellis repeatedly said that federal agents, including Bovino, lied about
the threat posed by protesters and their conduct on the streets of
Chicago. Federal agents oindiscriminatelyo fired tear gas at Chicagoans, tackled them, beat them, struck them with pepper balls and pointed weapons
at them, she found.

The Department of Justice has since appealed that injunction, calling it ooverbroad and unworkableo and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has already agreed to stay EllisA order, finding it would enjoin oan expansive range of defendantso including President Donald Trump, the departments of Justice and Homeland Security and anyone oacting in concert with them.o

oThe practical effect,o the court wrote, ois to enjoin all law enforcement officers within the Executive Branch.o

According to TuesdayAs filing, the DOJ plans to drop its appeal should
Ellis grant the dismissal request.

oClass Counsel agree that a dismissal with prejudice at this stage is fair
and reasonable,o the plaintiffsA attorneys wrote. oWith the Defendants no longer participating in Operation Midway Blitz, or other similar conduct
under any moniker or other mission title in this District, this case is no longer needed to protect Class MembersA interests.o

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/02/chicago-attorneys-abruptly-drop-lawsuit- case-over-federal-immigration-agents-use-force

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