"The state immediately filed a notice to appeal the decision with the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals."

[Miles Archer]

A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state close out operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, in her 82-page ruling, prohibited the state and federal governments from bringing additional detainees to the detention center, which has drawn mass protests. She also stopped any expansion of the detention facility, including adding industrial lighting or erecting any new buildings, such as tents or dormitories.

Though her order does not prohibit the state from making repairs to the site, the most striking aspect of the order is her demand that the state begin removing all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste items that have transformed the airstrip into a detention center within 60 days, rendering the site uninhabitable. Williams said she expects attrition to make the stripping of the site safe.

The state immediately filed a notice to appeal the decision with the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311770767.html

[Bayard]

1. Hoorah for Judge Williams!

[Pas-de-Calais]

2. HOW? Could any normal individual appeal this decsion?

ANY appeal is pure EVIL

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Pure unadulterated evil and greed. ....

Because you know that some heavy duty palm greasing is going on all throughout this despicable band of fascist thieves.

May they all get everything they deserve and more.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Deadline: Legal Blog-Judge rules Florida must halt construction and stop bringing new detainees to 'Alligator Alcatraz'

If upheld on appeal, the ruling will significantly restrict the government’s use of the controversial site in the environmentally sensitive Everglades.

NEW: Judge rules Florida must halt construction and stop bringing new detainees to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— MSNBC (@msnbc.com) 2025-08-22T03:36:57.368Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/alligator-alcatraz-ruling-florida-environment-wildlife-everglades-rcna226308

Finding that the government ran afoul of environmental and administrative requirements, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued a preliminary injunction that bars further construction or the bringing of new detainees to the site. Her order also calls the continued operation of the existing facilities into question, by giving the government 60 days to remove fencing, lighting fixtures, and “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles that were installed to support this project.”

Williams noted that her order doesn’t stop the government from making modifications or repairs to existing facilities for safety or to mitigate environmental or other risks.

The Obama appointee wrote that politicians have historically pledged to support the protection of the Everglades and that her order “does nothing more than uphold the basic requirements of legislation designed to fulfill those promises.”.....

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida joined the suit as plaintiffs, asserting their own interests for having “lived in and cared for the land now known as the Big Cypress National Preserve (the ‘Preserve’) since time immemorial.” The tribe explained that, “For generations, the Miccosukee people made pilgrimages from north Florida to the Everglades, including the Preserve, to fish, hunt, trap, and hold sacred ceremonies.” Williams’ preliminary injunction specified that the removal of fencing she ordered is “to allow Tribe members access to the site consistent with the access they enjoyed before the erection of the detention camp.”

Conditions at the site were described in a separate lawsuit as “harsh and inhumane,” with detainees allegedly “told that they are only allowed one meal a day (and given only minutes to eat), are not permitted daily showers, and are otherwise kept around the clock in a cage inside a tent.” The administration has denied all allegations of inhumane conditions.

This lawsuit will be fun to follow.