L.G.M.L. et al. v. Kristi Noem et al., No. 1:25-cv-02942 (D.D.C.). Judge Sooknanan was on emergency duty over the Labor Day weekend. Minute orders dated August 31, 2025, granted a temporary restraining order: defendants shall not remove the individual plaintiffs from the United States for 14 days, then a modified order covering a putative class of Guatemalan unaccompanied minors in ORR custody as of 1:02 a.m. that day who were not subject to an executable final order of removal.
She held a hearing the same day. Just the News reported her on-record remark: “I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend, which is surprising, but here we are.” That is a hearing line, reported. It is not a finding that the government committed a crime.
A TRO is temporary. It is not a Supreme Court holding and not a class-action final judgment. Later preliminary-injunction papers in the same caption exist; this file treats the August 31 emergency orders as the documented Sooknanan act.