An Ohio federal judge greenlighted a deal in which a healthcare staffing company that recruits nurses from the Philippines will shell out $6 million to settle a suit with about 5,600 workers accusing it of imposing strict employment contracts, not paying overtime and mandating a gossip ban.
Academic groups filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday seeking to block the Trump administration from targeting noncitizen students and faculty members who attend pro-Palestinian protests with large-scale arrests, detentions and deportations, saying it violates the First Amendment.
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to pause a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, arguing the band of nonprofit groups that obtained the order have no standing to challenge the firings.
BigLaw attorneys, immigration lawyers and legal advocacy organizations have been quick to blast President Donald Trump for what some of them call an "inexcusable and despicable" memo that is meant to intimidate attorneys out of challenging the administration.
The Trump administration said Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who is facing removal for negatively impacting U.S. foreign policy, is also removable because he concealed prior employment history on his green card application.
A Jamaican drug dealer ordered deported by U.S. immigration authorities who is seeking shelter in the country for fear of torture back home was joined by the U.S. government on Monday in telling the U.S. Supreme Court that his court challenge to a deportation order was not precluded by federal law, and was timely.
A group of immigrants have filed a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's purported policy of deporting noncitizens without warning to countries that are neither their country of origin nor a country where they have status or citizenship.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday removed part of a regulation barring it from sharing the immigration status of potential sponsors of unaccompanied children with law enforcement or immigration enforcement agencies.
Lawyers representing Venezuelans living in the United States urged a California federal judge on Monday to pause actions by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that would end temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the country, saying the actions were driven in part by racial animus.
The Trump administration asked a New York federal judge to reject a bid to block deportation proceedings against a noncitizen Cornell University student over his pro-Palestinian advocacy as well as two executive orders accused of chilling the free speech rights of foreign students.