Wells Fargo urged a Florida federal court to dismiss it from a proposed class action from EB-5 investors who say the bank facilitated a fraudulent real estate project in Orlando, Florida, arguing the complaint is an untimely "misguided attempt to saddle Wells Fargo with liability."
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling curbing President Donald Trump's authority to impose tariffs also undercuts the administration's sweeping assertion that it can subject all noncitizens to mandatory detention during removal proceedings, the American Civil Liberties Union told the Eighth Circuit.
Immigrant advocacy groups challenging the legality of an information-sharing agreement between federal immigration authorities and the IRS are not entitled to a court order stopping the tax agency from sharing taxpayer addresses for enforcement purposes, the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday.
Illinois is defending two recently enacted laws that allow private parties to sue civil immigration enforcement officers for knowingly violating their constitutional rights and bar civil immigration arrests at courthouses, telling a federal court the Trump administration lacks standing to challenge them.
A New York federal court's ruling, in U.S. v. Heppner, that documents created by a defendant using an artificial intelligence tool were not privileged, can serve as a guide to attorneys for retaining attorney-client or work-product privilege over client documents created with AI, say attorneys at Sher Tremonte.
The Trump administration has asked a federal judge to overturn an executive order New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed to limit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities on state-owned property, arguing that it poses an "intolerable obstacle" to immigration enforcement.
Money laundering-related fines and tax fraud investigations plummeted last year as President Donald Trump shifted federal agents away from combating financial crime to focus on the immigration crackdown, according to recent reports that have raised alarms among experts about the state of white collar enforcement in the U.S.
Three Mexican farmworkers have alleged their employer subjected them to forced labor, wage violations and deportation threats during the 2023-2024 harvest season, while also depriving them of adequate transportation, housing and water.
A New York federal judge Tuesday trimmed Filipino construction workers' lawsuit accusing U.S. public relations firms of knowingly covering up abusive working conditions during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, tossing state and federal claims stemming from human trafficking but allowing other federal claims premised in forced labor to proceed.
President Donald Trump declared at his State of the Union address on Tuesday night that Vice President JD Vance will lead the "war on fraud."