A Salvadoran immigrant detained for removal proceedings did not get a constitutionally-compliant bond hearing after Trump administration officials were ordered to allow the man to seek his release, a Virginia federal judge has ruled.
Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Labor to impose $580,000 in penalties and back wages on a New Jersey farm for alleged violations of the H-2A program, the department said last week, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case after the Third Circuit deemed the fines improper.
A man pled guilty Thursday in New York federal court to trying to bribe a juror in heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic's drug trafficking trial as part of a deal with prosecutors, following an alleged conspiracy to sway the verdict with an illicit six-figure payment.
A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer to pay $500 a day until an immigrant recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention gets his identification documents returned, according to the case docket.
Constitutional concerns took center stage during a hearing in Minnesota federal court on Thursday on whether to continue blocking the Trump administration from further detaining any of the roughly 5,600 refugees in Minnesota who have not yet secured their green card.
A Detroit police sergeant on Thursday sued the city in Michigan federal court, alleging the police chief wrongfully suspended her for summoning U.S. Border Patrol agents to a traffic stop to identify a Spanish-speaking suspect in violation of department policy and a city ordinance forbidding biased policing.
A coalition suing the IRS over its data-sharing deal with immigration enforcement authorities should not be allowed to investigate the agency's revelation that it shared some data improperly, the IRS told a D.C. federal court, saying it made the admission "in good faith."
Attorneys for three anonymous Venezuelan asylum seekers who claim they were among 49 migrants lured into boarding flights to Massachusetts have urged a federal judge to deny the flight operator's bid to unmask their identities, saying nothing has changed to warrant disclosure.
New York and New Jersey officials said Wednesday that construction on the $16 billion rehabilitation of aging commuter train tunnels under the Hudson River would resume next week after the federal government released $130 million in funds that a federal judge in Manhattan recently ruled had been unlawfully frozen.
An Eighth Circuit panel refused to fault the Board of Immigration Appeals for affirming the denial of a Honduran woman's attempt to reopen removal proceedings when it wasn't clear her ineffective counsel claim was shared with the appropriate disciplinary authority.