A Minnesota law firm and a human rights group have accused the Trump administration of unlawfully fast-tracking removal proceedings for nondetained Somali immigrants, making it "monumentally more difficult," if not nearly impossible, to defend their rights in immigration courts.
A Tennessee federal judge has agreed to transfer to North Carolina a year-old class action in which foreign workers say a healthcare system and recruiter trapped them in punitive contracts and buried them in grueling labor, after a judge said the action could have been filed in the Tar Heel State in the first place.
New Jersey's judicial disciplinary body questioned a municipal judge on Wednesday about why he believed it was appropriate to berate children and threaten their families with deportation during truancy hearings.
An immigration appeals board must reconsider a Guatemalan family's asylum applications after the mother said she feared the Guatemalan government wouldn't protect them from her brother, the Ninth Circuit ruled, finding the board may have failed to assess "key" evidence.
A California federal court has instructed the Trump administration to return a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient who was recently deported to Mexico, rejecting the federal government's position that the court lacked jurisdiction notwithstanding her active DACA status protecting her against removal.
California Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero highlighted positive collaboration among the state's judicial, legislative and executive branches, which she called "sister branches," in this year's State of the Judiciary Address, which otherwise focused on the court system's ongoing challenges including an ongoing need to fill judgeships and concerns over federal immigration enforcement in state courthouses.
A Washington federal judge signed off on a notice for a class action settlement that would have U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services repeal a program used to review naturalization and green card applications for people deemed to raise national security concerns.
The Trump administration says a Minnesota federal judge erred by holding a government attorney in contempt after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flouted a court order, claiming the lawyer was "wrongfully held captive to induce ICE's compliance."
Houston-area developer Colony Ridge told a Texas federal court that allegations underpinning a $68 million settlement with federal and state regulators would have faced "serious headwinds" at trial, pushing back on housing nonprofits' criticism of the deal resolving Biden-era fair lending claims against it.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with when a noncitizen "arrives in" the U.S., but struggled to pin down whether someone's foot, hand or nose must cross a "magic" line that would obligate border officials to process them.