A Fourth Circuit panel wrestled Tuesday with whether a federal court had authority to hear a Georgetown scholar's claim that he was detained for protected speech, with one judge insisting that federal immigration law forces challenges to immigration detention through the petition-for-review process.
Medical organizations and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are backing federal legislation introduced Tuesday that would exempt physicians and other healthcare workers from the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visas.
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled a California federal judge properly enhanced a man's sentence for a second illegal reentry conviction based on a prior conviction for making false statements to officers who arrested him for entering the U.S. without authorization.
The U.S. Department of Labor's request to the U.S. Supreme Court to mull whether the department can fine a New Jersey farm for what it alleged were H-2A program violations is based on a misconception, the farm told the justices, urging them to deny the petition.
The First Circuit on Monday mostly upheld a lower court's order blocking the Trump administration from enacting a "sweeping and unprecedented categorical 'freeze' of federal financial assistance," ruling that the states involved in the suit will likely successfully show that the federal government acted arbitrarily and capriciously.
A special master ordered an Iraqi citizen released from immigration detention after his early March deportation to Iraq was canceled because of the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, saying the man can't be held indefinitely under the terms of a class settlement that immigration authorities have repeatedly crossed.
A Massachusetts federal court issued an order Monday shielding the names of three Venezuelan asylum seekers in a proposed class action alleging Florida officials lured them onto flights to Martha's Vineyard, finding good cause exists to protect them from public scrutiny.
The Trump administration on Monday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a pair of lawsuits challenging a change to eligibility requirements for student loan forgiveness, calling the potential repercussions from the new rule "speculative."
A Manhattan federal judge has certified a class of EB-5 immigrant investors who claim TD Bank improperly released nearly $50 million of their funds from escrow, which allegedly caused the money to go missing and scuttled their efforts to seek visas.
Just three noncitizens were being detained at Guantánamo Bay facilities earlier this month, the Trump administration told a federal judge, but the American Civil Liberties Union disputed its assertions about how long people have been held there and their ability to correspond with attorneys.