A federal judge has thrown out the U.S. Department of Justice's suit claiming that California is required to fork over statewide voter registration lists with voters' driver's license and Social Security numbers, calling the Trump administration's request "antithetical to the promise of fair and free elections."
A Minnesota federal judge late Friday blocked federal immigration agents from retaliating against or detaining without probable cause people who are "engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity" against the Trump administration's operation targeting immigrants in the Twin Cities area.
A Lebanese professor at Brown University has seen her challenge to a five-year ban on reentering the United States dismissed as a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that her deportation leaves the court without any jurisdiction.
Immigration detainees who were transported to Kansas the morning after they launched a proposed class action over allegedly inhumane conditions at the government's Broadview, Illinois, holding facility should be promptly returned to the Northern District of Illinois, a Chicago federal judge said Friday.
In this installment of Wheeling & Appealing, November's appellate calendar features a Trump lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, New York City housing disputes, drug pricing battles, immigrant rights cases, and challenges to so-called patent troll laws.
After more than 12 hours of testimony, a federal judge appeared unconvinced by the government's position that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had done nothing wrong to warrant preliminary injunctive relief in a proposed class action alleging the agency is conducting warrantless arrests without determining probable cause.
A Florida franchisee group is suing a developer in state court over a $12 million loan to build two Twin Peaks restaurants in an EB-5 visa program, alleging the developer defaulted on the note and then told the IRS that it converted the loan into equity interest.
The new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas and a proposed overhaul of the visa lottery could have severe repercussions on healthcare access for many Americans, with experts saying the changes could worsen existing shortages of medical workers by restricting the foreign labor pool.
Eight former immigration judges who spoke to Law360 say the rough treatment of the immigration courts in President Donald Trump's second term poses an unprecedented threat to judicial independence and is eroding immigrants' due process rights.
The Seventh Circuit held Friday that an Illinois federal judge overstepped in requiring a top Border Patrol official leading the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Chicago to appear before her every weekday ahead of a Nov. 5 preliminary injunction hearing, saying she put herself in the position of "an inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator."