A U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge pushed a September hearing in an H-2A enforcement case against a Kentucky tobacco farm to August 2027, rescheduling the hearing while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the DOL's power to pursue monetary remedies in its in-house tribunal.
A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota unveiled criminal charges Tuesday against 15 people accused of participating in a conspiracy to impede immigration agents during heated protests in the Minneapolis area earlier this year, alleging they are affiliated with the notorious left-wing group antifa.
Haitian citizens challenging the Trump administration's now-postponed move to revoke Haitian noncitizens' temporary protected status urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss the administration's appeal, arguing that additional factual development is needed in light of newly disclosed documents.
The Second Circuit issued a summary order Tuesday affirming the conviction of a Connecticut man who pled guilty to tax crimes, disagreeing that allegedly misleading advice from trial attorneys about the immigration implications of his plea warranted his withdrawing it.
A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.
A Venezuelan national sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison is urging a D.C. federal court to adjudicate his tort claims against the government, arguing that the Trump administration's "centralized, multi-prong scheme" to deprive Venezuelans of due process originated in D.C.
Nineteen foreign drivers challenging a Florida agency's decision to stop issuing commercial driver's licenses to some noncitizens have dropped the federal government from their suit after the U.S. Department of Transportation argued that the case belongs in a federal appeals court.
Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah Dugan was unsuccessful in using a Fourth Circuit decision to vacate her conviction for helping a defendant in her courtroom evade immigration agents, after a federal judge ruled Tuesday the decision involves different fact patterns from her case.
Both billing for hours saved using artificial intelligence and preserving billable time by not adopting AI may violate rules of professional conduct, but until bar associations' ethics rules catch up to this emerging economic dilemma, firms must decide how to adjust fee structures themselves, says Ines Lassalle at Peyrot & Associates.