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The Ninth Circuit on Thursday partially remanded the Washington State Department of Health's lawsuit accusing GEO Group of illegally blocking access to an immigration facility for safety inspections, calling for an evidentiary hearing into how the refusal for access played out.

The Eleventh Circuit has stayed an appeal over the operation of a Florida Everglades immigrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" after the government requested a halt to proceedings due to the federal government shutdown. 

The U.S. Department of Justice urged a Rhode Island federal judge to dismiss a suit lodged by Democratic-led states, saying the challenge to a policy barring federal grant funds from covering legal services for unauthorized or removable immigrants belongs in federal claims court.

The First Circuit affirmed a New Hampshire jury's conviction of a U.S. Navy Reserve officer who participated in a scheme to provide letters of recommendation for Afghans seeking visas to enter the United States in exchange for money.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has reinstated her predecessor's opinion from the first Trump administration stating that asylum cannot be granted to people who engaged in the persecution of others, even if they were coerced into doing it.