An immigration attorney has resigned from the Washington State Bar Association rather than face disciplinary proceedings, just weeks after a group of ex-clients launched a legal malpractice lawsuit accusing her of botching their cases and abusing visa programs reserved for domestic violence and human trafficking victims.
Chicago's top federal prosecutor announced Wednesday a new suite of rules for how grand jury investigations are handled after an Illinois federal judge accused the prosecutor's office of misconduct in a case against six immigration activists.
Several organizations have joined the legal fight to restore $127 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture grants aimed at fighting climate change through diverse farm ownership, arguing that the agency's termination of the funding was arbitrary and capricious.
An environmental nonprofit told a Florida federal judge Wednesday that the director of the state's disaster agency illegally authorized a fleet of diesel-burning equipment that pollutes protected land surrounding an Everglades immigrant detention center, leading to violations of the Clean Air Act.
The Sixth Circuit’s recent opinion in Lopez-Campos v. Raycraft provides the most developed structural reasoning among rulings in a widening circuit split over mandatory detention after undocumented entry into the U.S., and supplies immigration practitioners a template for due process arguments in favor of habeas relief, says Kemal Hepsen at Mandamus Lawyers.
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal judge that detained noncitizens challenging a policy that allegedly blocks their ability to provide the biometric information needed for benefit applications to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services couldn't justify their push to have it temporarily stayed.
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday considered whether to extend or expand his order mandating improved conditions in a city immigration detention center, while airing concerns that a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official gave "egregiously misleading" testimony about the number of people in custody.
Washington state officials asked a federal judge to allow it access to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to inspect its conditions, arguing private prison operator GEO Group is not immune from local public health and safety laws.
A Washington federal court has revived the state's ability to receive reimbursements under a federal program that helps cover states' provision of sheltering services to noncitizens, finding that the Trump administration ran afoul of Congress' express funding priorities.
The U.S. Department of Labor's proposed rule to raise prevailing wages for certain immigrant workers drew criticism from organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, calling the suggested wages unrealistic, while others said the rule is necessary to protect American workers.