The Ninth Circuit ordered the federal government to reinstate cooperative agreements with refugee resettlement agencies on Friday, saying President Donald Trump likely acted lawfully when suspending U.S. refugee admissions in January, but his administration must still provide legally mandated services to those who have already arrived.
A steady stream of Board of Immigration Appeals decisions and Executive Office for Immigration Review memos, capped by recent guidance on handling constitutional claims, shows a Trump administration reining in immigration judges overseeing removal cases.
A New York federal judge on Friday ruled that immigration judges in Manhattan and the Bronx cannot, for now, summarily grant the government's oral motions to dismiss removal cases pursuant to a challenged policy, but refused to suspend immigration courthouse arrests.
The government urged a California federal judge on Thursday to reject Los Angeles' bid to dismiss its lawsuit over the city's immigration sanctuary ordinance, claiming the law discriminates against immigration agents, is preempted by federal law and is not protected by the 10th Amendment.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing government agencies to expressly use race in furthering their immigration enforcement goals, while prohibiting the use of race as even one of the factors to consider in college admissions. Some legal scholars see a double standard.
As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG.
A Washington federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Thursday blocking a Trump Administration policy requiring Head Start participants to prove citizenship, finding the federal directive jeopardizes stable learning environments depended on by children and families across the country.
Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist whom immigration officials are seeking to deport, urged the Third Circuit on Wednesday to affirm his release from immigration detention, saying a lower court got it right in several decisions that led to his release.
The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled Thursday that immigration judges can dismiss claims for asylum and other forms of removal relief without a full evidentiary hearing when a noncitizen fails to make out a basic case of eligibility.
The Trump administration said a New Jersey federal judge must throw out a lawsuit that nine international students filed challenging an abrupt termination of their student visa compliance records, now that it has restored their records.