This supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking re-opens public comment for certain topics and provisions that were addressed in HUD's May 29, 2024, proposed rule entitled "HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Program Updates and Streamlining." Among other changes, this supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking proposes to revise or revoke previously-proposed tenant protection provisions permitting participating jurisdictions to exceed the maximum per-unit subsidy for projects that met certain green building standards. This supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking would also create additional flexibilities related to scattered site manufactured housing rental projects.
On October 7, 2020, the Department of Justice ("Department") published an interim final rule ("IFR") amending the regulations governing the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer ("OCAHO"). The amendments reflected changes related to the creation of the position of the Chief Administrative Law Judge ("CALJ") and made additional related technical changes. This final rule adopts the provisions of the IFR with minor technical corrections.
A Fifth Circuit panel pressed counsel for multiple detained immigrants to explain why people who crossed the border unlawfully should get access to a bond hearing, saying Wednesday that the law clearly states that an allegedly unauthorized immigrant "shall be detained pending removal proceedings."
A Texas federal judge formally closed a Biden-era lawsuit alleging reverse redlining in a Houston-area development after the U.S. Department of Justice reached a $68 million deal that he says is untethered to the complaint and risks harm to the people claimed to be affected.
The Trump administration said a suit challenging the gold card visa program's legality must be thrown out because the immigrants and academic professionals union that filed it can't show the program hurts their chances at getting visas.
The Michigan Supreme Court Wednesday adopted a rule prohibiting civil arrests of those attending court proceedings or those who have legal business at the courthouse, which drew strong rebuke in a dissent describing the amendment as "a political statement as a solution in search of a problem."
A Massachusetts federal judge issued an emergency order protecting the spouse of an American citizen from being detained during her green card interview Wednesday after she filed a lawsuit claiming immigration enforcers have turned the mandatory interviews into a trap for people who are on the path to legal residency.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that courts shouldn't, as a matter of foreign policy, consider President Donald Trump's disparaging comments about Haitians in reviewing rescissions of temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria.
The United States sued New Jersey in federal court Wednesday, seeking to block a newly enacted law that bars masked law enforcement officers by arguing the measure unlawfully targets federal agents and violates the Constitution's supremacy clause.
