An immigration appeals board must reconsider a Guatemalan family's asylum applications after the mother said she feared the Guatemalan government wouldn't protect them from her brother, the Ninth Circuit ruled, finding the board may have failed to assess "key" evidence.
A California federal court has instructed the Trump administration to return a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient who was recently deported to Mexico, rejecting the federal government's position that the court lacked jurisdiction notwithstanding her active DACA status protecting her against removal.
California Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero highlighted positive collaboration among the state's judicial, legislative and executive branches, which she called "sister branches," in this year's State of the Judiciary Address, which otherwise focused on the court system's ongoing challenges including an ongoing need to fill judgeships and concerns over federal immigration enforcement in state courthouses.
A Washington federal judge signed off on a notice for a class action settlement that would have U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services repeal a program used to review naturalization and green card applications for people deemed to raise national security concerns.
The Trump administration says a Minnesota federal judge erred by holding a government attorney in contempt after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flouted a court order, claiming the lawyer was "wrongfully held captive to induce ICE's compliance."
Houston-area developer Colony Ridge told a Texas federal court that allegations underpinning a $68 million settlement with federal and state regulators would have faced "serious headwinds" at trial, pushing back on housing nonprofits' criticism of the deal resolving Biden-era fair lending claims against it.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with when a noncitizen "arrives in" the U.S., but struggled to pin down whether someone's foot, hand or nose must cross a "magic" line that would obligate border officials to process them.
The state of Michigan and the city of Romulus sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal court Tuesday, seeking to block the planned conversion of a warehouse into a 500-bed immigration detention center.
A youth advocacy attorney nearly came to tears as she told a D.C. federal judge of immigrant children being torn from their parents Tuesday, urging the judge to block a Trump administration policy requiring that previously approved custodians reapply to sponsor "unaccompanied" children while the minors are held in government facilities.
The state of Minnesota and Hennepin County on Tuesday asked a D.C. federal court to block the Trump administration from withholding evidence related to the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the nonfatal shooting of another Minnesotan at the hands of federal agents, calling its noncooperation "unprecedented."