Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends et al., 8:25-cv-00243-TDC. On February 24, 2025, Judge Chuang issued a preliminary-injunction order (ECF 62) limited to houses of worship owned, operated, occupied, or used by the named plaintiffs or their members, as specified on a list the plaintiffs were to provide.
As to those locations, the order directs defendants not to implement the January 20, 2025 Acting Secretary memorandum on enforcement actions in or near protected areas, and instead to apply the October 27, 2021 Mayorkas “Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas,” including prior-approval rules and the direction that such actions not be undertaken “to the fullest extent possible.” The order does not wipe all enforcement. Administrative or judicial warrants remain outside the ban described in contemporaneous coverage of the same order.
The injunction is not nationwide. New York Post, Daily Caller, and Epoch Times all reported the plaintiff-limited scope the same day. Maryland Matters reported on August 19, 2026, that a Fourth Circuit panel later affirmed that preliminary injunction. Affirmance of a plaintiff-limited PI is not a holding that ICE may never enter a church.