A South Carolina federal jury said a BMW manufacturing unit owes a former human resources manager $5.1 million after finding the business discriminated against her as an American citizen when it demoted her to make room for a German national.
A New Jersey federal judge ordered a Salvadoran's immediate release Thursday from immigration custody, saying the Trump administration's procedures for arrest and detention of noncitizens — while once potentially attributable to negligence — have entered the realm of "manifest recklessness."
A Massachusetts federal judge who ruled two Cabinet-level officials in the Trump administration targeted pro-Palestinian protesters for removal based on their speech appeared unmoved Thursday by the government's request to lift his sanctions while it appeals.
The federal judge who stopped the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer addresses with immigration authorities said Thursday that a recent admission by the agency showed that it broke the law more than 42,000 times last summer when it disclosed addresses by relying on a computerized matching system.
A Massachusetts federal judge Thursday appeared to hold fast to her two prior rulings that President Donald Trump lacks authority to change voting laws via an executive order requiring physical documentation of citizenship and voiding mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day.
A Florida-based tech company has accused the Department of Homeland Security of infringing five of its patents on surveillance analytics, saying the agency failed to get licenses to use the technology for immigration enforcement and surveillance programs inside the U.S.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and 17 domestic violence coalitions are fighting in Rhode Island federal court over the groups' bid for a temporary restraining order to block the government from cutting off grant funds that don't comply with President Donald Trump's diversity, equity and inclusion rules.
A California federal judge on Thursday denied the Trump administration's request to pause a suit by employers challenging President Donald Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee, but he held off on deciding the employers' preliminary injunction request and ordered the parties to brief whether the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on tariffs affects the case.
Florida admitted to a federal appellate court that it likely won't be reimbursed for an Everglades detention center used to support the Trump administration's strict immigration policy, even though last year the state's governor told the public that the federal government would fund the facility's construction.
The Minnesota federal court's chief judge who admonished U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for violating nearly 100 court orders concerning the Trump administration's immigration operations in the state vowed Thursday "to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law," including holding government officials in criminal contempt.