U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned her colleagues during oral arguments Wednesday against using a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's administration of a broadband subsidy program as a way to resurrect the long-dormant nondelegation doctrine. Several conservative justices, however, seemed willing to disregard that admonition.
More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general are urging a Massachusetts federal judge to preserve humanitarian parole programs for immigrants from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba and other countries, backing noncitizens from those countries and U.S.-based sponsors in their challenge to the Trump administration's block on the programs.
The Ninth Circuit granted in part Tuesday the Trump administration's emergency bid to stay a preliminary injunction barring President Donald Trump from suspending the U.S. refugee program, but clarified that refugees whose requests were processed prior to Trump's Jan. 20 order must be admitted.
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday considered whether to limit Columbia University's sharing of student records with Congress after students there, including detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, claimed the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to "punish and suppress" pro-Palestinian views.
A dissent refuting the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent order directing the U.S. Agency for International Development to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid argued that claims relating to already-completed government contract work belong in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims – answering an important question, but with a debatable conclusion, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at Jenner & Block LLP, suspending security clearances for its employees in response to the firm's pro bono work and a former partner's role as a top deputy to former special counsel Robert Mueller.
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to temporarily refrain from detaining a 21-year-old Columbia University student and legal permanent resident who says she was targeted for deportation for attending a demonstration against the college's response to protests over the war in Gaza.
The Trump administration has told a D.C. federal judge that immigrant services organizations don't have standing to challenge a presidential proclamation that declared an "invasion" at the southern border and suspended noncitizens' entry and asylum claims.
An Ohio federal judge greenlighted a deal in which a healthcare staffing company that recruits nurses from the Philippines will shell out $6 million to settle a suit with about 5,600 workers accusing it of imposing strict employment contracts, not paying overtime and mandating a gossip ban.
Academic groups filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday seeking to block the Trump administration from targeting noncitizen students and faculty members who attend pro-Palestinian protests with large-scale arrests, detentions and deportations, saying it violates the First Amendment.