Immigration activists whose claims of prosecutorial misconduct led Chicago's top federal prosecutor to drop a criminal conspiracy case against them are now asking their judge to appoint special counsel and conduct an evidentiary sanctions hearing to determine the full extent of the misconduct and "ensuing cover-up."
The Board of Immigration Appeals said Wednesday that an immigration judge erred in determining that an evidentiary hearing was necessary before deciding whether a Cuban national should be deported to Ecuador under that country's asylum cooperative agreement with the U.S.
STERLING, Va. – The Ethiopian national soccer team didn’t qualify for the World Cup this year, but another product from Ethiopia did reach the United States only to be seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Washington Dulles…
A Mexico-born woman who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year is suing the government in Connecticut federal court, saying the agents violated agency guidelines and the constitution when they arrested her in front of her young children while they were on the way to school.
A Rhode Island federal prosecutor who knowingly withheld information about a detainee's criminal history at the behest of immigration enforcement, leading to an "unfounded attack" against a federal judge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the detainee's release, violated his duty of candor but will not face discipline, the district's chief judge determined.
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday agreed to conduct en banc review over the firing of two immigration judges, after the Merit Systems Protection Board ruled that they constituted inferior officers who are subject to at-will removal by the president.
A U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge pushed a September hearing in an H-2A enforcement case against a Kentucky tobacco farm to August 2027, rescheduling the hearing while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the DOL's power to pursue monetary remedies in its in-house tribunal.
A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.