District courts in the Ninth Circuit continue to apply a defunct and especially forgiving pleading standard to questions of Article III standing, and the circuit court itself has only perpetuated this confusion — making it an attractive forum for disputes that have no rightful place in federal court, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
Washington state's attorney general launched a lawsuit on Friday accusing a hops grower of illegally firing local employees, often women, and replacing them with foreign farmworkers, abusing the federal H-2A temporary visa program for seasonal agricultural labor.
The Board of Immigration Appeals held Friday that an immigration judge should not have terminated a noncitizen's removal proceedings so he could seek to adjust status under the Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act, saying the individual's eligibility was too speculative to warrant termination.
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday reopened a lawsuit challenging a Washington, D.C., law that permits noncitizen Washingtonians to vote in local elections, saying the suit's claims of vote dilution were enough to establish standing.
A former Haitian mayor convicted of lying on his visa application about his role in ordering the killing of a human rights observer's brother and other political violence was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday by a Massachusetts federal judge.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's move to bar foreign students from attending Harvard University.
A Rhode Island federal judge on Thursday preliminary blocked the U.S. Department of Transportation from conditioning billions of state grant dollars on enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown agenda, finding that a 20-state coalition is likely to win its constitutional legal fight and will be irreparably harmed without an injunction.
Opening myself up to new experiences through competing in modern Olympic pentathlon has shrunk the appearance of my daily work annoyances and helps me improve my patience, manage crises better and remember that acquiring new skills requires working through your early mistakes, says attorney Mary Zoldak.
The U.S. Department of State said foreign nationals seeking student and exchange visas will be instructed to make all their social media profiles public for government review as it resumes an application process suspended last month.
A Wisconsin federal judge overseeing the government's prosecution of a state judge for allegedly helping an unauthorized immigrant evade arrest canceled a jury trial scheduled for July, saying he will rule on her motion to dismiss first.