The U.S. Court of Federal Claims said Thursday that most of the Gateway Development Commission's claims against the Trump administration are now moot since the federal government recently released millions in previously withheld funds for New York and New Jersey's Hudson Tunnel Project.
An immigrant advocacy group says several Massachusetts sheriffs' departments are improperly relying on a federal regulation to withhold records documenting their relationships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents.
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are pushing back on the Trump administration's bid to dismiss their lawsuit challenging National Guard deployment to the state because all the troops have since been demobilized or withdrawn, with no plans to return, telling an Illinois federal judge that the president's social media posts and public statements tell a different story.
A South Carolina federal judge has declined to block a U.S. Department of Labor administrative enforcement action accusing a farming company of underpaying foreign agricultural workers, finding the employer failed to show it was likely to succeed on its constitutional claims or face irreparable harm.
A Florida federal judge has ordered federal immigration authorities to send back two U.S. citizen children who were deported to Guatemala with their mother, noting it already conceded they were unlawfully detained.
Maryland accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully refusing to provide records for a civil rights investigation into an immigrant holding facility in Baltimore where people commonly complain of being "treated like animals."
Podcasting has changed how I ask questions and connect with people, sharpening my ability to listen without interrupting or prejudging, and bringing me closer to what law is meant to be: a human profession grounded in understanding, judgment and trust, says Donna DiMaggio Berger at Becker.
The former federal government lawyer detailed to Minnesota to help with immigration cases who last month told a federal judge "this job sucks" says she is running for Congress in the state.
The state of Maryland urged a federal court to issue a 14-day temporary restraining order that would stop the federal government from continuing its plans to convert a warehouse into an immigrant detention facility, arguing that the federal government is disregarding the planned facility's potential environmental harm.
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in GEO Group v. Menocal will affect virtually every case in which a government contractor faces liability because they can no longer routinely assert their immunity under the government contract and must instead make a showing on the merits, says Terry Collingsworth at International Rights Advocates.