The New Jersey Supreme Court wondered Wednesday how to manage case flow when detained or deported defendants are prevented by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from attending their proceedings, lamenting the difficult choice of options including letting matters languish, conducting criminal trials virtually or issuing bench warrants that could complicate immigration cases.
The Colorado Attorney General's Office launched an online tool Wednesday for Coloradans to report federal agent misconduct, meant to assist the office in "ensuring federal accountability, documenting concerns and identifying potential patterns of misconduct by federal agents," the office said in a news release.
The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday issued an administrative stay temporarily lifting a district court injunction blocking federal immigration agents from retaliating against or detaining peaceful protesters without probable cause during federal immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities area.
A coalition of Democratic-led states told the First Circuit that the Trump administration's bid to bar Harvard University from admitting foreign students exemplifies its larger attempt to use immigration enforcement to retaliate against disfavored higher education institutions.
The Trump administration and Florida's emergency management agency have urged the Eleventh Circuit to not supplement the appellate record with their communications on federal funding relating to the new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, arguing the documents are immaterial.
As illustrated by the public commentary surrounding the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an immigration agent, lawyers sometimes have mistaken assumptions about the applicability of self-defense when law enforcement officers deploy deadly force, but the governing legal standard is clear, says Markus Funk at White & Case.
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
The Fourth Circuit paused a Trump administration appeal of a ruling that dismissed its challenge to a standing order Maryland federal judges issued to temporarily delay the removal of detained noncitizens who file habeas petitions.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the order doesn't run afoul of the 14th Amendment, which he said was intended for freed slaves and their children — not "children of temporarily present aliens or illegal aliens."
A California federal judge rejected the Trump administration's bid Tuesday to toss an amended complaint from dozens of sanctuary jurisdictions pushing back on the threat to withdraw federal funds over their immigration enforcement policies, finding the court already rejected some of the arguments and his "mind is unchanged."