John L. Kane

Rule Changes

Presiding over the underlying class action

For more than a decade, private prison operator GEO Group has fought to avoid a trial over allegations that roughly 60,000 immigration detainees at its Aurora, Colorado facility were forced to perform janitorial work for one dollar a day — or nothing at all — under threat of solitary confinement. On February 25, the United States Supreme Court shut down GEO's last procedural escape route, ruling 9-0 that the company cannot claim government-contractor immunity to skip ahead of a final verdict. Justice Elena Kagan wrote that GEO "must wait" for trial before appealing.

Updated Feb 26