The American Immigration Council and the U.S. government told a D.C. federal judge they've struck a settlement to end a long-running Freedom of Information Act dispute over records related to family separation policies during the first Trump administration.
The Board of Immigration Appeals reversed an immigration judge's ruling protecting a Mexican national from removal, finding that while he said he was kidnapped and his homes were previously shot at, he failed to show a likelihood of future torture.
A year ago, U.S. Department of Justice officials said the government would be taking over a program historically run by nonprofits to provide legal orientations and referrals for pro bono representation for adults in immigration detention facilities. But those involved in the program say the Trump administration hasn't taken any steps to run the program.
A Rhode Island federal judge, who was accused by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of releasing a detained noncitizen who allegedly has an overseas warrant for homicide, pressed an assistant U.S. attorney for answers Monday after he apologized for not disclosing the warrant to the court.
Massachusetts' top court on Monday appeared concerned that a state district court judge in 2018 offered to detain a defendant sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, as the justices considered a public reprimand.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer sentenced to over 1.5 years in prison for depriving a man of his rights at a New Mexico port of entry and falsifying a report about the incident cannot have his conviction overturned, a Tenth Circuit panel said on Monday.
Two noncitizens filed a proposed class action Monday in federal court seeking to block parts of Texas' migrant arrest law from taking effect, less than two weeks after the full Fifth Circuit ruled that immigrant-rights groups and a Texas county lacked standing to challenge the law.
President Donald Trump has expanded his sanctions regime against Cuba, issuing an executive order targeting Cuban government officials while also implementing second-order sanctions against financial institutions that carry out transactions with sanctioned individuals.
A Minnesota federal magistrate judge won't stop a military attorney from being appointed to prosecute a civilian accused of assaulting federal immigration officers, despite finding that the appointment violates binding U.S. Department of Defense regulations.
The recent incident involving Sullivan & Cromwell where citations in a filed motion were fabricated by artificial intelligence, as well as a punitive ruling from the Sixth Circuit in U.S. v. Farris, demonstrate that the obligation to supervise AI has and always will belong to lawyers, says John Powell at the Kentucky School Boards Association.