A Massachusetts immigration lawyer is asking a federal judge to order the return of his business cellphone after it was seized by U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection agents at Logan International Airport.
A Rhode Island federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $233 million in federal funds away from a coalition of Democratic-led states, the same day an appropriation for the funds was set to expire.
A coalition of nearly 30 localities led by San Francisco and Santa Clara County, California, have sued the Trump administration over "unlawful" threats to withhold $350 million in funding for disaster and emergency response, claiming the government has placed conditions on the funding that exceed its authority.
A California federal judge on Thursday certified three nationwide classes of immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal who claimed in litigation that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unlawfully terminated their temporary protected status designations, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision limiting lower courts' use of nationwide injunctions.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily paused a split Fifth Circuit decision that said a Texas asylum seeker's 7-year-old daughter can be returned to Venezuela, which was set to take effect Friday.
The U.S. Department of Justice must still submit court-ordered information in a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service's sharing of tax data with immigration authorities by Oct. 24, a D.C. federal judge ruled, despite the federal government shutdown that began Wednesday.
A Texas federal judge has told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that it must release a Mexican national who was brought to the U.S. unlawfully as a child and is protected from removal by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
A New Jersey farm's violations of the H-2A visa program, as alleged by the U.S. Department of Labor, didn't involve private rights, the DOL argued as it urged the full Third Circuit to flip a panel's decision that the department couldn't use in-house administrative proceedings to impose fines.
Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.
Several state attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Justice in Rhode Island federal court Wednesday over new restrictions prohibiting them from using federal funding that supports crime victims to provide services to "removable aliens," in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and the U.S. Constitution's spending clause.