A California federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from requiring cities and local governments to follow "impermissibly vague" directives relating to immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion policies in order to receive federal transportation, infrastructure, housing and other grants that had already been appropriated by Congress.
An immigrant rights group has told a California federal judge that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is rehashing rejected arguments to try to escape a suit alleging she cut corners to end temporary protected status designations for Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Trump administration filed dueling briefs on whether a D.C. federal judge can certify a class and grant classwide relief in a suit challenging the government's transfer of some detained noncitizens to Guantánamo Bay.
A Minnesota state judge should not have presided over proceedings to increase his longtime court reporter's salary, the state Supreme Court said, disciplining him with a public censure and a suspension for nine months without pay.
The union that represents the judges who hear immigration cases said the government has fired at least 16 judges without cause in recent days, adding to the dozens of judges who have left or been fired since President Donald Trump took office.
Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.
A North Carolina federal judge said the owners of Lee and Sons Farms must face a collective action brought by migrant farmworkers and certified several classes of workers alleging breach of contract and wage law violations.
Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Tuesday they are looking into the Trump administration's alleged closure of a U.S. Department of Justice bribery investigation of White House "border czar" Thomas Homan, following recent news reports that he accepted $50,000 from an undercover FBI agent.
The First Circuit on Monday faulted the Board of Immigration Appeals for refusing to consider a Guatemalan asylum applicant's appeal brief that was inadvertently filed in the wrong forum, finding the decision "troubling," and saying the BIA abused its discretion by not offering an explanation.
The federal government told the U.S. Supreme Court that immigrant detention contractor The GEO Group Inc. is wrong when it asserts that a federal judge's rejection of its immunity defense to a detainee class action could be appealed immediately.