Florida argued Tuesday a lack of U.S. government funding and control can't support a lower court order finding the construction of an Everglades-based immigration detention center bypassed federal environmental laws, and urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a preliminary injunction halting the center's operations.
Federal judges are issuing increasingly detailed, critical and decisive orders for habeas relief in immigration cases, stepping in as what immigration experts say is a last resort check on a system viewed as having crumbling due process safeguards.
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Tennessee federal judge that prosecutors investigated and charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the books, while Abrego Garcia argued the government's responses to a vindictive prosecution claim "strain common sense" and ask the court to disregard reality.
A Vermont federal judge said Tuesday that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at Logan Airport in Boston had no legal authority to cancel the visa of a Harvard researcher and Russian national after finding frog embryo samples in her luggage last year.
A conservation group has accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection of violating the Freedom of Information Act, telling a Texas federal court it must disclose requested records over the Trump administration's border wall plans for Texas' Big Bend region.
Prison operator GEO Group Inc. has asked a Colorado federal judge to pause a forced labor class action brought by former immigrant detainees and certify an appeal for the Tenth Circuit to weigh a question about government contractor immunity that could end the case.
New Jersey and the township of Roxbury asked a federal court to halt the conversion of a warehouse to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, citing expected strains on local resources and the environment.
A federal judge Monday refused to overturn a former Wisconsin state judge's conviction for helping shield a defendant in her courtroom from arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, rejecting her contention that, because ICE had no authority to make the arrest in the courthouse, there was no obstruction.
Chicago and other municipalities again urged an Illinois federal court to enforce its preliminary injunction stopping the federal government from freezing and withholding funding for a U.S. Department of Homeland Security shelter program, saying they're still awaiting reimbursement for certain costs incurred before the government's grant terminations.
My audit of 1,522 court documents from last month found that over 95% contained at least one verifiable error, with fewer than 1% showing clear indicators of artificial intelligence use — highlighting above all else that lawyers may want to focus most on strengthening their review processes, says Elliott Ash at ETH Zurich.