U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must release an Iraqi refugee who has been in immigration detention since last July, a special master in Michigan federal court ordered Monday, saying the refugee's continued detention flouted a class action settlement agreement.
Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk is no longer subject to removal proceedings, after an immigration judge ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had not shown that she should be deported, her lawyers said Monday.
Recent decisions from courts across the country demonstrate how different jurisdictions balance competing policy interests in determining whether legal malpractice claims can be assigned, providing a framework to identify when and how to challenge any attempted assignment, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin & Lodgen.
A California federal judge granted the Trump administration's push to block part of a new Golden State law requiring federal agents to stop hiding their faces behind masks, but said another law requiring them to display identification can take effect.
The Trump administration must continue to refrain from arresting and detaining refugees in Minnesota who haven't yet secured permanent resident status, a Minnesota federal court has ruled, finding no support in the Immigration and Nationality Act for their mandatory detention.
The Trump administration has appealed a Massachusetts federal judge's order restricting its ability to deport noncitizen university professors and students who engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy, arguing the sanctions went beyond the judge's power.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Attorney's Office to turn over materials related to its decision to prosecute a Harvard Medical School researcher and Russian national found with inert frog embryo specimens last year at Logan Airport, calling the timing of the case "a red flag."
The Ninth Circuit has hit pause on a district court's order that vacated the Trump administration's termination of temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, saying the administration will likely succeed on challenging the vacatur order.
The U.S. Department of Justice told the First Circuit this week that President Donald Trump's expansive authority over foreign affairs calls for it to overturn a ruling that blocked a proclamation suspending the ability of foreign students to enter the country to attend Harvard.
Attorney access at the immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades "far exceeds" standards for allowing legal representation than what Florida has in its prison system, a state corrections officer testified Thursday as a federal court considered a proposed class action.