A coalition of unions, nonprofit organizations and local governments that are challenging the Trump administration's federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations asked a California federal judge Tuesday for permission to add the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a defendant, saying ongoing staff cuts threaten its legally mandated responsibility to respond to disasters.
A coalition of Texas elected officials and community leaders called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday to immediately release a father and his 5-year-old son from an immigration detention facility in southern Texas after they were detained last week in Minnesota.
Former detainees testified Wednesday in Florida federal court about conditions at an Everglades immigration facility, recalling that they weren't able to speak with attorneys and had to write down phone numbers for counsel using bars of soap.
A day after two Senate Republicans have called for the removal of Kristi Noem from her post as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the second deadly shooting this month by immigration agents in Minneapolis, no other Republicans have joined them.
Several progressive prosecutors have launched a new group to hold accountable federal officials who "exceed their lawful authority," amid a growing backlash to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the recent killing of two protesters by immigration agents in Minneapolis.
A New Jersey municipal judge accused of berating children and threatening their families with deportation during truancy hearings admitted Wednesday that after listening back to the proceedings that he could have done better, but defended the intention behind his conduct.
The U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Gregory Kehoe, along with an assistant U.S. attorney have been threatened with sanctions by a federal judge for the methods their office used in defending the mandatory detention of noncitizens.
An insurer accused a law firm and a collection of medical providers and professionals of engaging in a scheme to defraud insurers through sham lawsuits and inflated medical bills, telling a New York federal court that the defendants have enriched themselves "at the expense of justice, equity and human dignity."
U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.
The Republic of Rwanda has launched international arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom as the African nation tries to secure payment for a scrapped migrant agreement, alleging the U.K. refused to disburse remaining payments to it when the controversial deal got called off.