The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T sweeps aside uncertainty about what kinds of regulatory enforcement trigger a Seventh Amendment right, say attorneys at Squire Patton.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is asking a D.C. federal judge to pause a ruling blocking its expansion of a database that allows states to screen voters while it appeals to the D.C. Circuit.
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.
The Seventh Circuit criticized a practice by immigration judges in which they attach boilerplate legal citations instead of citing them in the decisions themselves, saying it makes appellate review more difficult, but declined to reject the practice.
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday issued a split opinion handing down a five-month term of probation and a suspended jail sentence to a Miami woman for practicing as an unlicensed immigration attorney after she admitted violating previous orders prohibiting her from the same conduct.
A Georgia appellate panel sided with media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group and a nurse who was interviewed about alleged forced sterilizations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, saying a trial court erred by letting a doctor's defamation suit proceed.
The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.