A Third Circuit judge suggested Thursday that the outcome of a case alleging that a Garden State farm violated provisions of a temporary guest worker program hinges on whether it's an immigration matter or a labor dispute, a determination that should be made before the panel can view it through a post-Jarkesy lens.
The midtrial immigration arrest of a Dominican national during his Massachusetts court case has raised tensions between federal and state prosecutors and threatens to injure cooperation between the offices, experts say.
A Boston federal judge said Thursday that she expects to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from bringing an early end to a Biden-era decision allowing nearly a half-million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to stay in the United States while they seek asylum or other legal status.
A Georgia federal judge has refused to toss a defamation lawsuit filed by a former immigration facility doctor who alleged he was defamed by the release of a true-crime podcast episode that accused him of performing forced hysterectomies on detainees.
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday remanded a district court's 2023 vacatur of a Biden-era rule placing limits on asylum so that the lower court can address legal developments, but one circuit judge asserted that the remand was the latest move in an "ongoing game of Supreme Court keep-away."
Immigration advocates trying to block the Internal Revenue Service from disclosing taxpayers' information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies urged a D.C. federal court on Thursday to require the Justice Department to hand over an unredacted version of a government agreement to share the confidential data.
Texas' Harris County, which includes Houston, has joined a growing group of programs accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully freezing federal funds, writing that the administration is attempting to "starve" its refugee resettlement programs by cutting off funding already authorized by Congress.
Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to recuse a California federal judge overseeing a challenge to its decision to cut funding for child migrant legal services programs, saying the judge previously worked as a managing attorney for the lead plaintiff and is therefore biased.
The Internal Revenue Service's interim leader, Melanie Krause, will stay at her post through May 15, the U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday, after she and other officials reportedly said they would resign following an IRS agreement to share taxpayer information with immigration enforcement agencies.