A D.C. federal judge on Friday denied Afghan and Iraqi nationals' bid to compel the government to act on their long-pending visa applications, saying the court lacks jurisdiction to issue such relief because it already granted relief under the Administrative Procedure Act.
A Massachusetts federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's proclamation suspending entry of foreign students coming to the U.S. to study at Harvard, saying the university has shown that it will sustain immediate and irreparable injury absent a restraining order.
As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.
Harvard University on Thursday expanded its lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's efforts to block international students from studying at the nation's oldest college to attack a presidential proclamation that restricts Harvard's foreign students based on supposed national security concerns.
A "sparse and self-serving" record provided by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management still shows the agency unlawfully directed federal agencies to fire probationary employees en masse, so a California federal court can reach a final decision now and "unwind" those terminations, a coalition including unions and advocacy groups said Thursday.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was accused in court Wednesday of forcing government employees to violate a state law by requesting they honor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests for information about 35 sponsors of unauthorized immigrant children.
President Donald Trump's travel ban, which suffered multiple court losses during his first term before the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld it, may be on more solid legal footing in its renewed form, with lessons evidently applied from those losses.
A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups and criminal defense lawyers sued the Trump administration in D.C. federal court Thursday, alleging its agreement with El Salvador to imprison deported noncitizens for as much as $20,000 per person violates federal law.
Attorneys for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil asked a New Jersey federal court to block Secretary of State Marco Rubio's doctrine of linking deportation with foreign policy interests, telling the court that he will suffer irreparable harm if his detention on foreign policy grounds continues.
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking 11 years in prison and a $2 million fine for a man who pled guilty to charges tied to the running of a cross-border used-car transport business, which prosecutors say used violence to keep competition at bay.