Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
The Internal Revenue Service's interim leader, Melanie Krause, will stay at her post through May 15, the U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday, after she and other officials reportedly said they would resign following an IRS agreement to share taxpayer information with immigration enforcement agencies.
The owner of a Massachusetts scrap tire facility and the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission are in the process of drafting an agreement to resolve allegations that Hispanic workers faced harassment and threats on the job, then were fired in retaliation for striking, according to a Wednesday filing.
A doctoral student from China studying at the University of Washington is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming the federal government unilaterally terminated his Student and Exchange Visitor Information System record based on a pending DUI arrest without conviction, exposing him to potential removal from the U.S.
A Washington federal judge expressed frustration on Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Justice's uncertainty about how long it would take to resume processing of certain refugees, citing two previous orders blocking President Donald Trump's administration from shutting down refugee admissions.
The House voted 219-213 on Wednesday to approve a bill curbing nationwide injunctions, a move the Trump administration has thrown its support behind after district court judges paused or halted many of the administration's initiatives over the last few months.
The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive."
Asian Pacific American bar associations on Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold a block on President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, saying Trump distorted a seminal 1898 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmed U.S. citizenship to a man born in California to Chinese parents.
HIDALGO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, agriculture specialists at Hidalgo Port of Entry this weekend intercepted a spider monkey, more than $980K in cocaine in two separate, unrelated enforcement actions.
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