Eleven nonprofit legal services organizations, including one in Berkeley and another in East Palo Alto, this week filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco seeking to preserve funding for the legal representation of children in immigration matters.  

The plaintiffs allege that last Friday, “without warning,” they received “cancellation orders” from the U.S. Department of the Interior ordering them to immediately stop work representing “unaccompanied children” in immigration cases. They asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order that would rescind the cancellations until the court can hold a full hearing on the lawsuit. 

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.