My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.
A D.C. federal judge on Friday nixed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration illegally suspended visa processing under a program aimed at diversifying the immigrant community in the United States, noting the statutory expiration of the visas after Sept. 30 has rendered their claims moot.
Attorneys for asylum seekers, who are a part of a class the government is barred from deporting until their immigration cases conclude, told a Maryland federal judge that the Trump administration keeps deporting class members anyway.
A federal judge rejected a local trucking group's bid to force California to lift its freeze on immigrant truck driver's licenses, saying the Golden State cannot run afoul of federal mandates in a way that would jeopardize highway funding or risk the state's licensing program getting decertified altogether.
The government is appealing a Massachusetts federal court's finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees whom the agency apprehended in the state are entitled to a bond hearing.
A North Dakota company tapped for construction work at the U.S. southern border filed a Court of Federal Claims suit alleging that Customs and Border Protection has failed to pay it $6.3 million.
The Trump administration will now face a higher evidentiary burden to deport certain noncitizens after a Massachusetts federal court ruled it violated professors' and students' free speech rights for trying to remove them for their Palestinian advocacy.
A split Fourth Circuit panel ruled Friday that a district court did not abuse its discretion in finding a challenge to the federal government's termination of a citizenship preparation grant program likely belongs in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Launching and sustaining a law firm requires skills most law schools don't teach, but every lawyer should understand a few core principles that can make the leap calculated rather than reckless, says Sam Katz at Athlaw.
Ethiopian immigrants on Friday sued for emergency relief to stop the Trump administration from ending their temporary protected status next month, arguing discrimination fueled the decision and ignored the armed conflict and humanitarian crises in their country.