Seventh Circuit judges sounded unwilling Thursday to disturb an arbitrator's finding that a Chicago hotel failed to employ union-represented workers during its use as a migrant shelter, suggesting the hotel took issue with interpretations of key words the arbitrator appropriately drew from the underlying collective bargaining agreement.
A divided Ninth Circuit panel has revived a Guatemalan father and daughter's bids for protection from removal from the United States, finding on Wednesday the father faced extreme persecution in the Central American country when a family member repeatedly shot at their home in a drunken rage in an attempt to force them out.
A Missouri woman accused a white nationalist group in Arkansas federal court of violating the Fair Housing Act and other civil rights laws by refusing to let her buy land in the group's community in Arkansas because she is a Jewish woman with a Black husband and three biracial children.
A recent executive order marks an extreme shift for foreign companies whose Cuban dealings have no relation to the U.S. and are entirely lawful under the laws of their home jurisdictions, such that their existing ring-fence protocols no longer offer protection from the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s secondary sanctions, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
The Trump administration told the Fourth Circuit that a district court wrongly deemed its suit challenging a standing order temporarily barring the immediate removal or transfer of detained noncitizens out of the District of Maryland a "branch-on-branch" dispute.
A Colorado federal judge ordered Thursday that jurors be permitted to view the inside of an immigration detention facility near Denver, agreeing with detainees that visiting the GEO Group Inc.-operated facility will help them better understand key issues in the detainees' human trafficking class action.
A D.C. federal judge ordered the Trump administration to inform a certified class of Afghan nationals seeking special immigrant visas for aiding the U.S. government overseas about a proclamation that suspended visas for people from Afghanistan and dozens of other countries.
Current and former immigration judges spoke on a web panel Thursday about threats to the independence of immigration judges and the strains on the immigration system, such as a massive backlog of cases at a time when many judges have been pushed out or fired.
A Bolivian attorney can't revive his application to the Florida Bar for certification as a foreign legal consultant after the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday denied his petition to force the bar to reconsider because its rules put asylees in an impossible position.
A National Labor Relations Board panel partly granted a Texas immigration advocacy organization's request to review a decision that allowed some attorneys and legal assistants to remain in a voluntarily recognized bargaining unit, to reconsider whether they are supervisors.