The Ninth Circuit recognized in a split panel decision on Monday that President Donald Trump likely acted within his statutory power when he called for Oregon National Guard members to be sent to Portland, granting the federal government's bid to stay a lower court order blocking the deployment as an appeal plays out.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated the rights of eight noncitizens by detaining them without providing bond hearings, a Michigan federal judge ruled, echoing her prior characterization of the Trump administration's push to impose mandatory detention as "not only wrong, but fundamentally unfair."
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday again told the government it cannot look at data pulled off an immigration lawyer's phone that it seized at Logan International Airport last month, as the court weighs his request for an order to destroy the information.
Federal prosecutors in California have downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor an obstruction charge against the Service Employees International Union's California head, who was arrested in June during a protest at an immigration raid.
A New York federal jury Friday returned a landmark $20 million verdict against French bank BNP Paribas, finding the bank liable for its role enabling the genocide former Islamist dictator Omar al-Bashir committed against Black African civilians in Sudan.
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to pause a court order barring it from sending the National Guard to Chicago, asserting the judge had no business impeding the president's decision that troops are needed to protect federal immigration agents there.
The Third Circuit in a precedential ruling Friday declined to apply immigration precedent concerning counsel's obligation to advise their criminal defendant clients about deportation risks associated with prosecutions to the civil setting, holding that the standard applies only in highly specific circumstances.
The Trump administration has urged a New York federal judge to find a lawsuit challenging ICE arrests at courthouses moot since the Executive Office for Immigration Review withdrew a May email at the heart of the litigation.
The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
A New Jersey federal judge on Friday lifted travel restrictions for Palestinian green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, allowing him to travel anywhere in the U.S. so long as he provides the court with 48 hours' notice.