An Oklahoma federal judge entered a two-week block on an Oklahoma law that makes it a crime for unauthorized immigrants to live in the state, reaffirming a prior ruling that the state law was likely unconstitutional.
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Maryland federal judge that more than a dozen news organizations looking to unseal records in litigation challenging the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador have no right to access sensitive discovery materials.
Yale University and a woman who accused a classmate of sexual assault, resulting in his expulsion, have together asked a Connecticut federal judge to throw out the since-acquitted student's defamation and contract claims, arguing that repeated and "egregious" litigation misconduct despite court warnings warrants dismissal.
Following the presidential transition, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss suits brought by the Biden administration challenging state immigration enforcement measures in Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma, leaving the status of those cases up in the air.
The Wisconsin judge accused of obstructing federal immigration authorities' arrest of an unauthorized migrant in her courtroom has a strong argument that judicial immunity protects her after the U.S. Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling, some experts say, while others say judicial immunity does not extend to criminal prosecutions.
A divided Fourth Circuit denied the Trump administration's request to halt a district court order requiring the government to bring back a 20-year-old Venezuelan with a pending asylum application who was deported to a Salvadoran prison despite a class settlement barring his removal.
Electronic device searches are becoming common at U.S. border inspections, making it imperative for companies to familiarize themselves with what's allowed, and mandate specific precautions for employees to protect their privacy and sensitive information during international travel, say attorneys at Seyfarth.
A New Jersey federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from detaining or deporting a group of nine international students or terminating their F-1 immigration status, finding that there is no evidence the students failed to maintain it.
Lawyers for immigrants at risk of being deported to countries where they have no prior ties and may face harm told a Boston federal judge Tuesday that the government removed at least two class members to South Sudan in violation of a court order.
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Mexican father's bid for deportation relief based on extreme hardships he claimed his sons would face if they accompanied him to Mexico, saying in a published opinion that substantial evidence suggested otherwise.