A California federal judge overseeing claims that federal immigration agents indiscriminately target Latinos in Southern California asked the parties during a Thursday hearing to brief her on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Mullin v. Doe ruling, which the government said could doom plaintiffs' equal protection claim.
A 62-year-old Massachusetts man was detained for two days last year by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite offering proof that he was in the country legally, according to a suit filed Thursday in federal court.
The Third Circuit seemed skeptical of the federal government's argument Thursday that it had no obligation to offer immigrant detainees virtual access to state criminal courts, questioning whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was denying detainees' rights to a speedy trial or access to evidence.
Clashes over the Trump administration's bid to void California's vehicle emissions standards, federal restrictions on commercial drivers' licenses for foreign truckers and Boeing 737 Max securities litigation involving class certification standards are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are monitoring in the latter half of 2026.
After a series of blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court rulings greenlighting significant components of President Donald Trump's immigration agenda in the first half of the year, lower courts are poised to other test key policies, including the $100,000 H-1B visa fee, the administration's 75-country immigrant visa ban and the end of automatic extensions for expiring work permits.
Two men with temporary agricultural work visas said Thursday they have settled their forced labor lawsuit against blueberry farm entities in Michigan federal court, after alleging that they were trafficked to Michigan and subjected to "brutal" work conditions.
Landing a trophy striped bass and closing a big deal both require cultivating the patience to finesse — not force — your way to desired outcomes, changing course when your old approach isn’t working and learning from the ones that got away, says Jon Ruiss at Alston & Bird.
A former Wisconsin state judge convicted of obstructing immigration authorities trying to arrest a defendant after he appeared in her courtroom lodged an appeal before the Seventh Circuit on Thursday, after avoiding a prison sentence but being fined $5,000.
A North Carolina federal judge dismissed a detained Egyptian national's habeas petition as moot even as he expressed concern about the "heavy-handed manner" in which the U.S. government had conducted the asylum-seeker's immigration proceedings.
A Massachusetts federal judge has been asked to certify a class of migrants alleging they were tricked into boarding flights from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in a political stunt.