Six new petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky by people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, nearly all held at the Kenton County Detention Center in Covington. These habeas corpus petitions challenge the law fulness or conditions of immigration detention and are distinct from appeals of deportation orders. So far in 2026, 148 such petitions have been filed in the district. Caceres Calderon v. Kenton County Detention Center — Case No. 2:26-cv-00242, filed June 3, 2026, assigned to Judge S. Chad Meredith Hingano v. Fields — Case No. 2:26-cv-00244, filed June 4, 2026, assigned to Judge David L. Bunning Quintero v. Olson — Case No. 2:26-cv-00243, filed June 4, 2026, assigned to Judge David L. Bunning Rodriguez Sosa v. Kenton County Detention Center — Case No. 2:26-cv-00245, filed June 4, 2026, assigned to Judge David L. Bunning Fnu v. Warden — Case No. 2:26-cv-00247, filed June 4, 2026, assigned to Judge Karen K. Caldwell Lamela v. Mullin — Case No. 2:26-cv-00249, filed June 5, 2026, assigned to Judge S. Chad Meredith This roundup was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from public U.S. District Court (Eastern District of Kentucky) docket records via CourtListener. It lists newly filed 28 U.S.C. § 2241 immigration-detention habeas petitions — case caption, docket number, filing date, and assigned judge — together with standing legal context. It does not characterize the contents or merits of any individual petition. View in feeds The post 6 new immigration-detention habeas petitions filed in E.D. Kentucky appeared first on The Lexington Times. ...read more read less