The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in GEO Group v. Menocal will affect virtually every case in which a government contractor faces liability because they can no longer routinely assert their immunity under the government contract and must instead make a showing on the merits, says Terry Collingsworth at International Rights Advocates.
A D.C. federal judge said she'd need more briefing before deciding whether to grant a motion to enforce her injunction limiting the circumstances in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can make warrantless immigration arrests within the nation's capital.
The foreign-born son of a lawful permanent resident who later became a naturalized citizen can keep his minor status for visa purposes even though he's now over 21 years old, the Tenth Circuit ruled, reversing a Colorado federal court's decision.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's bid to stay an order imposing sanctions on the government for targeting pro-Palestinian protesters for removal over their speech while it appeals, saying the government's unconstitutional conduct must be stopped.
The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to again block courts from postponing its revocation of foreign nationals' temporary protected status, this time for 350,000 Haitians, saying its prior Venezuelan TPS decisions aren't holding sway.
The Second Circuit on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to again freeze federal payments to New York and New Jersey for the ongoing $16 billion rehabilitation of aging commuter train tunnels under the Hudson River.
The Washington State Department of Health said a contractor's attempts to escape an evidentiary hearing demonstrated that the company could not defend its jurisdictional claims in a lawsuit accusing it of illegally restricting access to an immigration facility.
The Ninth Circuit's chief judge said the court is reviewing how to manage its "enormous immigration docket" after several judges appointed by President Donald Trump "unilaterally disrupted" the court's policymaking with a ruling questioning the legality of the court's practice to automatically stay deportations pending a review of the merits.
NMFS has received a request from the U.S. Department of the Navy (Navy) for Incidental Take Regulations (ITR) and an associated Letter of Authorization (LOA) pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). The requested regulations would govern the authorization of take of marine mammals incidental to training and testing activities using Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar systems in the western and central North Pacific and eastern Indian oceans over the course of 7 years from August 2026 through August 2033. NMFS requests comments on this proposed rule. NMFS will consider public comments prior to making any final decision on the promulgation of the requested ITR and issuance of the LOA; agency responses to public comments will be summarized in the final rule, if issued. The Navy's activities are considered military readiness activities pursuant to the MMPA, as amended by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (2004 NDAA) and the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2019 (2019 NDAA).
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