LOS ANGELES, California — Dr. Mahendra Amin has filed a new federal libel lawsuit, this time against academic publisher Sage Publications, alleging it falsely accused him of performing dozens of non-consensual hysterectomies on women detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. The suit follows a June 2024 federal court ruling that found NBC had published verifiably false claims about his medical conduct.
According to the complaint, Sage’s December 2024 book Slippery Eugenics: An Introduction to the Critical Studies of Race, Gender and Coloniality asserted that Amin had carried out 57 unnecessary hysterectomies on immigrant detainees and implied multiple gynecologists had confirmed that finding. Amin argues those claims had already been proven false long before publication. A bipartisan U.S. Senate investigation previously determined he performed only two hysterectomies on ICE detainees — both medically necessary and approved by ICE.
Amin notified Sage in March 2025, demanding a retraction. The publisher halted distribution of the book’s first edition and issued a corrected second edition but did not take steps, Amin says, to remedy the damage caused by the original version.
The lawsuit does not name the book’s author, a Cambridge University professor, likely due to jurisdictional limits. Sage, headquartered in the Los Angeles area, was sued in federal court in California’s Central District.
The new filing continues Amin’s multi-year effort to challenge false allegations first amplified in 2020 when whistleblower claims spurred national outrage and widespread media coverage.
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