As illustrated by the public commentary surrounding the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an immigration agent, lawyers sometimes have mistaken assumptions about the applicability of self-defense when law enforcement officers deploy deadly force, but the governing legal standard is clear, says Markus Funk at White & Case.
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
The Fourth Circuit paused a Trump administration appeal of a ruling that dismissed its challenge to a standing order Maryland federal judges issued to temporarily delay the removal of detained noncitizens who file habeas petitions.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the order doesn't run afoul of the 14th Amendment, which he said was intended for freed slaves and their children — not "children of temporarily present aliens or illegal aliens."
A California federal judge rejected the Trump administration's bid Tuesday to toss an amended complaint from dozens of sanctuary jurisdictions pushing back on the threat to withdraw federal funds over their immigration enforcement policies, finding the court already rejected some of the arguments and his "mind is unchanged."
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.
Thirty-one Iranians and one Sudanese national have sued the Trump administration to force U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process their pending work permit applications, alleging the agency unlawfully put them on hold under directives for nationals of travel-ban countries.
A California federal judge has declined the government's bid to dismiss a suit from Stanford University's student newspaper challenging the Trump administration's targeting of foreign students with pro-Palestinian views for removal, ruling that the paper and two students have standing to sue.
A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday that immigration court judges appear to be "effectively ignoring" rulings by her and other district judges to grant bond hearings for detainees, but acknowledged there's little she can do about it.
Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to resolve a circuit split in In re: Grand Jury, federal courts remain split as to when attorney-client privilege applies to dual-purpose legal and business communications, and understanding the fragmented landscape is essential for managing risks, say attorneys at Covington.