A New York federal judge on Thursday trimmed but refused to throw out First Amendment claims brought by activist Mahmoud Khalil and other Columbia University past and present students who accuse the federal government of coercing Columbia to suppress their speech, finding that at this stage in the litigation, the students have adequately alleged violations of their rights.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a pair of bills on Thursday, one banning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other law enforcement officers from hiding their faces with masks, and another prohibiting impersonators from misusing badges and insignia.
A D.C. federal judge denied U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's push to escape a suit alleging it's unlawfully using a regulation to shield records about detained immigrants held in Michigan jails, rejecting its arguments that the Freedom of Information Act could provide relief.
California residents facing federal deportation proceedings would receive legal representation under a new bill introduced by state Assemblymember Mia Bonta.
An Ecuadoran woman can't reopen U.S. immigration proceedings through an ineffective-counsel claim when the person she hired to help her is not an attorney and did not hold himself out as one, the Board of Immigration Appeals has decided.
New Jersey wage and hour protections require employers to pay employees regardless of their immigration status, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, finding that state law doesn't clash with federal immigration law prohibiting the employment of immigrants living in the country without legal permission.
The state of California on Thursday threw its support behind a group of immigrants held at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement camp in the Mojave Desert who accuse the Trump administration of subjecting them to "dangerous conditions and pervasive abuses."
Coaching youth soccer for my 7-year-old son's team has sharpened how I communicate with clients, prepare witnesses, work within teams and think about leadership, making me a more thoughtful and effective lawyer in many ways, says Joshua Holt at Smith Currie.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin's nomination to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was sent to the full Senate on Thursday.
A D.C. federal judge largely allowed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's practice of fast-tracking deportations and arresting immigrants at immigration courthouses to proceed, tossing only individual immigrants' claims objecting to alleged government policies allowing oral motions to dismiss removal proceedings.