Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.
A California federal judge has ruled the government must keep funding legal representation for unaccompanied children in immigrant hearings for the time being, saying Congress created rules requiring the government to do so as long as funds remain for it.
House Democrats and two organizations that help immigrants prepare tax returns urged a D.C. federal court to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.
The Wisconsin state judge who was arrested and charged for allegedly helping an unauthorized migrant evade arrest by federal immigration officers has been temporarily suspended by the state's highest court.
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his citizenship interview in mid-April, was released on bail on Wednesday following a Vermont federal judge's order.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday amended his order requiring that deportees receive meaningful due process before being removed to countries where they have no prior ties to explicitly state that the government cannot escape the requirement by transferring custody to the U.S. Department of Defense or another agency.
The Third Circuit's argument lineup for May will see the state of New Jersey defend a law barring its immigration detention centers from contracting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while Rutgers University seeks to keep its victory over claims it falsely inflated its business school's ranking.
A provision to transfer the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust functions to the U.S. Department of Justice was stripped out of the House Judiciary Committee's budget reconciliation bill on Wednesday.
The Third Circuit wondered Wednesday why a jury couldn't be allowed to examine the same type of gun, or at least a replica of one, that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer claims spontaneously fired into his leg at a design defect trial that he wants revived.
A D.C. federal judge gave a surprise pop quiz on the Fifth Amendment's due process clause Tuesday over the Trump administration's termination of an Indian student's visa record, while excoriating the government's "non-process" in throwing the student's academic life into chaos.