The Eleventh Circuit on Friday denied Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's bid to lift a block on a state law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants into the state, finding that the state had failed to make a strong showing that it would succeed in its attempt to fend off a challenge to the law.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration removed to an El Salvador prison in March, is back in the U.S. and charged by a federal grand jury in Tennessee with smuggling unauthorized immigrants, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
As the U.S. prepares to host some of the 2026 World Cup games, a confluence of heightened border vetting, shifting visa policies and a sweeping new travel ban is fueling concerns about fans' willingness to come and the financial viability of the tournament.
A Michigan federal jury on Friday ruled that a migrant farmworker contractor engaged in forced labor, finding in favor of five farmworkers who said they were coerced into working long hours without pay.
Defense attorneys say they see early signs of an uptick in white collar prosecutions under new Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley, though depleted resources in the prominent Boston office and an overwhelming focus on immigration could limit the number of high-profile cases in the near future.
A Massachusetts federal judge Friday demanded answers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after a class of immigrants seeking humanitarian parole allowing them to remain in the U.S. reported that their applications are still frozen, despite her recent order that the government resume processing them.
A D.C. federal judge on Friday denied Afghan and Iraqi nationals' bid to compel the government to act on their long-pending visa applications, saying the court lacks jurisdiction to issue such relief because it already granted relief under the Administrative Procedure Act.
A Massachusetts federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's proclamation suspending entry of foreign students coming to the U.S. to study at Harvard, saying the university has shown that it will sustain immediate and irreparable injury absent a restraining order.
As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.
Harvard University on Thursday expanded its lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's efforts to block international students from studying at the nation's oldest college to attack a presidential proclamation that restricts Harvard's foreign students based on supposed national security concerns.