The fastest civil trial courts in the country are currently in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, and their chief judges provide insights into the court rules that keep them ahead, says Robert Tata at Hunton.
Justice Stephen Breyer’s book “Making Our Democracy Work” offers a useful lens through which to consider what is at stake for the Executive Office for Immigration Review's legitimacy as the government asks the D.C. Circuit to revive an interim final rule that would have fast-tracked decisions by Board of Immigration Appeals, says Tara Kennedy at Kennedy Law.
Jeremiah Johnson was fired from his job as an immigration judge without any warning in November, along with several of his colleagues. He says the terminations point to larger structural problems within the immigration court system, which is overseen by the Department of Justice and subject to the shifting whims of different administrations.
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a Mexican citizen's petition challenging an immigration court's removal order on the merits, while sanctioning his attorney $5,000 for filing two legal briefs "riddled with" fabricated quotes and case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT.
A Salvadoran national who previously lost his bid to avoid removal was too late in seeking to reopen his case before an immigration appeals board, the Tenth Circuit has ruled, rejecting his arguments over why his motion should still be deemed timely.
Organizers of an annual conference focused on the EB-5 investment visa program stressed a theme of optimism at the event last week in Miami, but even as the program appears to have overcome many of its own past issues, it was impossible to ignore the uncertainty and volatility that hangs over the program and U.S. immigration more broadly.
Immigrants aren't eligible for the Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline program, which subsidizes the cost of phone and internet service for low-income households, unless they've been in the country for five years, the U.S. Department of Justice has declared.
A bankruptcy trustee may continue to pursue claims that a lender violated an oral amendment to a loan agreement, a former executive for a Dunkin' franchisee cannot push his case to Delaware, and a law firm hired to represent an investment fund is not responsible for the revocation of a visa for one of the fund's co-founders after he was terminated, judges in Suffolk County's Business Litigation Session concluded in May.
A federal judge in D.C. has declined the Trump administration's request to pause a lawsuit over ICE's warrantless home entry policy, saying the White House's claim that it suspended the policy is insufficient.
A farmworker has asked a New York federal judge to block the state from imposing a union contract on him and his co-workers, saying the contract adopted under a state agricultural labor law violates his constitutional rights and is preempted by federal immigration law.