An Illinois federal judge urged immigrant detainees on Thursday to give "serious consideration" to streamlining their complaint over a Chicago-area holding facility's allegedly inhumane conditions, saying "there's something to" the government's argument that their current pleading is too long to advance.
In the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, his administration lost in court nearly twice as often as it won, but its success rate increased when it appealed, according to a Law360 review of more than 400 lawsuits.
A Chinese national living in Southern California pled guilty Friday in Los Angeles federal court to a conspiracy charge for unlawfully exporting computer chips for artificial intelligence applications worth "tens of millions of dollars" to China.
Afghanistan citizens seeking special immigrant visas after aiding U.S. forces overseas told a D.C. federal judge on Thursday that the Trump administration can't indefinitely suspend processing when it faces a court order to promptly process applications that have been unduly delayed already.
The Trump administration's indefinite pause on immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries may test the outer bounds of executive control over visa issuance and prompt court battles in a rarely litigated area of immigration law.
A federal judge has thrown out the U.S. Department of Justice's suit claiming that California is required to fork over statewide voter registration lists with voters' driver's license and Social Security numbers, calling the Trump administration's request "antithetical to the promise of fair and free elections."
A Minnesota federal judge late Friday blocked federal immigration agents from retaliating against or detaining without probable cause people who are "engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity" against the Trump administration's operation targeting immigrants in the Twin Cities area.
A Lebanese professor at Brown University has seen her challenge to a five-year ban on reentering the United States dismissed as a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that her deportation leaves the court without any jurisdiction.
Immigration detainees who were transported to Kansas the morning after they launched a proposed class action over allegedly inhumane conditions at the government's Broadview, Illinois, holding facility should be promptly returned to the Northern District of Illinois, a Chicago federal judge said Friday.
In this installment of Wheeling & Appealing, November's appellate calendar features a Trump lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, New York City housing disputes, drug pricing battles, immigrant rights cases, and challenges to so-called patent troll laws.